CoStar hires Cheng to cover New York real estate

Andria Cheng

Real estate news service CoStar has hired reporter Andria Cheng to cover the New York market.

She started on Monday.

Cheng has been a senior contributor to Forbes and a freelancer for the past three years.

Before Forbes, she was at eMarketer to help it start a retail news product.

Cheng left MarketWatch and The Wall Street Journal in August 2015 after eight years. She also worked at for Bloomberg News from 1999 to 2007.

She has a master’s degree in journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill and originally came to the U.S. from Taiwan as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.

Cheng was ranked from 2013 through when the ranking ended last year as a top retail industry influencer by retail software firm Vend from its independent analysis of social media and other influencer metrics.

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.