Birmingham Biz Journal hires new commercial real estate reporter

Brent Godwin

Brent Godwin, who previously worked for the Birmingham Business Journal, has returned to the paper as its commercial real estate reporter.

He started on Tuesday.

This is Godwin’s second stint at the American City Business Journals newspaper. He was an editorial intern there in the summer of 2011, and then was research director from 2011 to 2013. Then, he was online editor from 2013 to 2014.

Godwin left the paper last year and worked in sales in Atlanta.

“Now I’m back as a reporter covering CRE, retail, and economic development,” said Godwin in an email to Talking Biz News. “I’m incredibly excited to be back and to cover all of the real estate activity happening in downtown Birmingham and surrounding areas right now.”

Godwin is an Auburn University graduate.

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.