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Bankrate real estate editor Kearns departs

Deborah Kearns

Deborah Kearns, real estate editor at Bankrate.com, has left the news organization.

She joined the website in June 2018.

On Twitter, Kearns wrote, “I have left Bankrate for a new role. I am deeply grateful for the wonderful opportunities I had there, including media appearances and editing. Blessed to have worked with talented, kind people, and I wish them the best.

Kearns has a wealth of experience covering housing and mortgage issues. Prior to joining Bankrate, she freelanced for clients such as Credit Karma, Investopedia, Realtor.com, Country Living, RISMedia, The Mortgage Reports and Atlanta Magazine, among others.

She previously covered mortgage news for NerdWallet and was senior editor of corporate communications at RE/MAX for more than seven years.

Kearns began her journalism career as a police beat reporter with The Gainesville Sun after graduating from the University of Florida with an undergraduate degree in journalism.

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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