Categories: OLD Media Moves

Charlotte Biz Journal hires new real estate reporter

The Charlotte Business Journal has hired Ashley Fahey to be its new real estate reporter, according to Tony Wilbert of The Wilbert Group.

She replaces Will Boye, who left the paper last month to open a Charlotte office for Wilbert’s PR firm, which specializes in representing real estate companies.

Fahey is a 2013 graduate of Elon University, where she majored in print/online journalism and minored in international studies.

Since graduation, Fahey has worked at the McClatchy-owned newspapers The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette, based in the Hilton Head Island, S.C. area. She is the retail/real estate reporter for both papers and previously worked as a copy editor/page designer.

She wrote a three-day enterprise series in September 2015 about the future of retail development in Beaufort County.

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.