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Bankrate.com hires two mortgage reporters

Personal finance site Bankrate.com has hired two new mortgage reporters — senior reporter Jeff Ostrowski and reporter Javier SImon.

Ostrowski has been a business reporter at the Palm Beach Post since 1999. He covered real estate, the economy and public companies, including Fortune 500 firms NextEra Energy, Carrier Global and Office Depot. He reported and wrote the Post’s annual executive compensation survey and annual NIH funding survey. 

His stories about a state tax loophole that let large landlords save millions led Florida lawmakers to unanimously end the tax break. Ostrowski is also a board member of the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

Ostrowski previously worked at the South Florida Business Journal and the Fort Pierce (Florida) Tribune.

Simon was a banking, investing and retirement expert for SmartAsset. The personal finance writer’s work has been featured in Investopedia, PLANADVISER and iGrad.

He is a member of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. He has a degree in journalism from SUNY Plattsburgh

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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