Categories: OLD Media Moves

Albuquerque Biz First ME takes over real estate beat

Christopher Ortiz

 Christopher Ortiz, the managing editor of Albuquerque Business First, is becoming the paper’s lead real estate reporter as well.

Ortiz writes, “I am continuing my role as managing editor but will take the lead on the coverage in our publication’s most prominent and popular beat.

“But it won’t be just me. Going forward, everyone on our news team will have a hand in covering Albuquerque and New Mexico’s real estate and construction scene, from our technology reporter covering updates on projects like Facebook’s $1 billion data center in Los Lunas to our money and jobs reporter examining how state and local leaders use tax incentives to lure new developments like the upcoming Topgolf project.

“Commercial real estate and construction is the bread and butter of business reporting, and it’s something that has an impact on nearly every aspect of business, from money to jobs to economic development.”

Read more here.

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.

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