Triangle Biz Journal reporter Hoopfer departing

Evan Hoopfer

Evan Hoopfer, a real estate reporter for the Triangle Business Journal, is leaving for a communications job at a state agency.

He has been with the American City Business Journals paper since July 2021. He has been covering real estate, economic development, and other business news within the counties of Lee, Moore, Johnston, Chatham, Franklin, Nash, Harnett and Granville — areas that are experiencing significant success.

Hoopfer was previously at the Dallas Business Journal, a sister publication, where he was an assistant managing editor and a reporter. He had been with the Dallas paper since April 2016.

Hoopfer was a metro desk intern for the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University, where he was editor of the student newspaper.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.