Bisnow hires Smith to cover Houston real estate

Tierra Smith

Tierra Smith has been hired by Bisnow to cover the Houston commercial real estate market.

She replaces Kyle Hagerty, who left in April to join CoStar Group.

For the past six months, Smith has been working as a reporter in Tomball and Magnolia, two Houston suburbs, for a community newspaper. Before that, she was an intern on the business news desk of the Tampa Bay Times.

Smith has a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Grambling State University and a master’s degree from Louisiana State University.

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.