Costar hires Orlando Biz Journal’s Witthaus

Jack Witthaus

Dan Beyers, executive editor of real estate news service CoStar, sent out the following to the staff:

We delighted to announce the arrival of Jack Witthaus to be our new staff writer in Los Angeles.
Jack has done stints at the Houston Business Journal and, most recently, at the Orlando Business Journal, where he covered commercial real estate and kept close tabs on the Walt Disney Co. He was part of a team that took first place honors for in-depth reporting this year from the Florida Press Association, for coverage of Black-owned businesses. He’s a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Jack is starting his orientation in Richmond and will be in the DC office later this week, before heading to LA.
Please say hello.

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.