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CoStar hires Walsh as managing editor

Steve Walsh

Steve Walsh has been hired as a managing editor of CoStar’s real estate news operation.

He started on Monday.

Walsh will be sharing managing editing responsibilities with Tim Trainor, who led the CoStar news operation before executive editor Dan Beyers arrived in April to expand the operation.

Walsh has been securities editor at CQ Roll Call for the past five years, manage teams developing and launching products covering capital markets, exchanges, mergers, corporate governance, health insurance and financial regulators.

He’s been the top editor for the Washington Securities Briefing, a daily online legal and regulatory report that provides news and analysis to CQ.com, CQ Magazine and Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw.

Before that, Walsh worked at Bloomberg News for 17 years, including a four-year stint as Chicago bureau chief and as an enterprise editor.

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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