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Charlotte Biz Journal hires O’Connell to cover real estate

Elizabeth O’Connell

The Charlotte Business Journal has hired Elizabeth O’Connell to cover commercial real estate.

She has been a reporter at the Anson Record in Wadesboro, North Carolina.

O’Connell attended the University of Arizona and graduated in 2018 with a Bachelors of Arts in Journalism and a double minor in Spanish and sports management.

She held internships at two local Tucson news stations, worked as a communications assistant at the College of Pharmacy, the school newspaper, apprenticed at the Arizona Daily Star, and became a photographer for Arizona Athletics.

O’Connell also lived in Thailand for six months where she taught English to nursery and kindergarten students.

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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