CoStar hires Luck to cover the Houston market

Marissa Luck

Real estate news service CoStar Group has hired Marissa Luck.

Luck will cover real estate, economic development and business in Houston.

She previously was an energy reporter for the Houston Chronicle, focusing on refining and petrochemicals. She also wrote stories about climate change, renewable energy, plastic waste and the energy industry’s shift to more artificial intelligence.

Luck previously worked at the Austin Business Journal and the Daily News of Longview, Texas.

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.