Albuquerque Biz First reporter Perea leaving to cover education

Shelby Perea, the retail and real estate reporter for Albuquerque Business First, is leaving the paper to join the Albuquerque Journal.

At the Journal, she will cover K-12 education.

Perea joined Business First in January 2017, covering new construction projects in and around Albuquerque, retail and restaurant development, and the residential housing market. Before taking over the real estate beat, Perea was a digital producer at the business weekly, managing social media across several platforms, setting traffic goals and bringing pageviews to the paper’s website.

Before that, she was a digital producer for KRQE News 13.

Perea is a University of New Mexico graduate in psychology and communication and media studies. She has lived in Albuquerque her entire life.

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.