Charlotte Business Journal real estate reporter headed to PR

Will Boye, a real estate reporter at the Charlotte Business Journal, has resigned for a job in public relations.

Boye will open the Charlotte office of The Wilbert Group, an Atlanta-based PR firm that specializes in real estate.

His last day at the Business Journal will be Feb. 4. He will start at Wilbert Group on Feb. 8.

“Charlotte is a natural growth market for us,” said Tony Wilbert of The Wilbert Group, in an email to Talking Biz News. “One of our most-important clients, Crescent Communities, is headquartered there. Given his experience and knowledge, Will is the ideal person to lead the charge in the Queen City. He knows real estate, law, has an MBA and is a Redskins fan.”

Boye has been with the Business Journal for 12 years. He covered banking and finance from 2003 to 2009 before taking on the real estate beat. Boye also worked for Institutional Shareholder Services as a senior editor and Institutional Investor as as a staff writer. He was a senior editor for Charlotte Magazine from 1999 to 2001.

Boye has an undergraduate degree from Davidson College and a master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri. He also holds an MBA from Queens University in Charlotte.

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.