Categories: OLD Media Moves

Connect Media hires Johnson as president

Ben Johnson

Commercial real estate news operation Connect Media, which produces a daily commercial real estate newsletter in several major cities, has hired Ben Johnson  as president.

Johnson was previously managing director and editor-in-chief of Real Assets Adviser, a publication from Institutional Real Estate Inc.

His prior experience also includes serving as a director at American Airlines Publishing, and as editor, associate publisher and publisher of numerous Penton Media properties, including National Real Estate Investor, Shopping Center World/Retail Traffic, Arts & Crafts Retailer, and CES Trade News Daily magazines.

He also has run his own media consulting business, Johnson Media Ventures LLC, and has served in a variety of marketing, publishing and editorial positions, including publisher of CPA Practice Advisor, a Cygnus Business Media property, and publishing director at CoStar Group.

In addition, Johnson is the author of the only biography on Sam Zell, the Chicago-based real estate and media investor, originally published by Penguin Group USA in December 2009.

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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