Categories: OLD Media Moves

Arizona law firm invests in real estate weekly

An Arizona law called the Rose Law Group LC has invested in the Business Real Estate Weekly of Arizona, reports Kristina Hansen of the Phoenix Business Journal.

Hansen writes, “For the law firm, the greatest benefit and most noticeable outcome of the partnership will be unveiled this Friday when the weekly print publication moves forward under a new name: BREW by Rose Law Group.

“Tim McGuire, a journalism professor at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said the partnership may be the first of its kind, but is the beginning of an industry transformation he’s been expecting to unfold for quite some time.

“‘Fasten your seat belt now because we’re going to see more and more of this,’ McGuire said.

“For the past 18 years, Terry McDonnell, the founder and president of BREW who is also a former real estate reporter for the Phoenix Business Journal, has been running a one-man show. He personally breaks the latest commercial transactional news in Arizona in his weekly newsletter — and often does so ahead of other media outlets and many times before deals even close or become public record.”

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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.