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CoStar hires Diamond as West Coast editor

Jonathan Diamond

Real estate news service CoStar has hired Houston Chronicle deputy business editor Jonathan Diamond as its West Coast editor.

He will start on Sept. 13 and oversee coverage from Seattle to San Diego. His last day at the Chronicle will be Sept. 10. I

“I’m happy to be back in LA, but will miss the team in Houston – they’ve done really amazing work…” said Diamond in a message. “The business desk … has consistently turned out stories that have engaged readers, and I’m really proud of the work the reporters there have done.”

Diamond was previously the editor in chief of the Los Angeles Business Journal. He joined the Chronicle in January 2019.

He has a master’s degree in public policy from UCLA and a bachelor’s in journalism  from Boston University.

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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