Atlanta daily hires Peters to cover commercial real estate

Andy Peters

American Banker reporter Andy Peters has been hired by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to cover economic development and commercial real estate.

He will start on Jan. 6.

Peters has been part of the community banking team at American Banker. He previously worked at the Atlanta Business Chronicle covering the banking, finance and legal beats.

Peters also worked for the Atlanta bureau of Bloomberg News for three years, covering everything from Coca-Cola to Home Depot and Delta Air Lines. He then spent three years as the Atlanta bureau chief of the Macon Telegraph.

Peters has also been a reporter for the Fulton County Daily Report, a legal and business newspaper in Atlanta.

Peters has a degree from Furman University and attended the University of Georgia.

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.