CoStar News hires Alltucker to cover Arizona real esate

Ken Alltucker

Real estate news service CoStar News has hired Ken Alltucker to cover the Arizona real estate market.

The hiring continues the editorial expansion for the company.

Alltucker joins CoStar from The Arizona Republic, where he was a senior reporter leading its health care coverage. He wrote about areas such as the Affordable Care Act, pharmaceuticals, health insurance and medical research. Alltucker had been at The Republic since April 2005.

Before that, Alltucker spent nearly five years as a business reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he covered urban development and commercial real estate. Alltucker also led the paper’s Census coverage, developing key trend stories and assisting reporters and editors with data analysis.

He is a graduate of San Francisco State 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.