Categories: OLD Media Moves

CoStar hires Smith-Tenta as a general assignment reporter

Cara Smith-Tenta

CoStar News, which covers real estate around the country, has hired Cara Smith-Tenta as a breaking news reporter.

She starts Monday and will be based in Chicago.

“I’m extremely excited to join CoStar News,” said Smith-Tenta in a message. “They’ve got a really exciting, fresh vision for business reporting, and I’m thrilled to be a part of the team and continue covering the ins and outs of commercial real estate.”

Smith-Tenta has been a freelance journalist in Chicago since the beginning of the year. She earlier worked at the Houston Business Journal for four years, first as its Money & Law reporter and then as its commercial real estate reporter, covering retail, industrial, office, construction, architecture and engineering and land deals.

She is a University of Houston graduate. While at Houston, she was editor in chief of the Daily Cougar, the student newspaper.

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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