CoStar South Florida reporter Owers departing

Paul Owers

Paul Owers, who covers South Florida real estate for CoStar Group, is leaving for a job at Florida Atlantic University.

He will be working on the news desk and embedded with the College of Business. His start date is March 23.

Owers has been at CoStar since October 2017.

He previously spent 12 years as a business reporter at The Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, where he covered the housing market from the end of the boom in 2005, through the nation’s foreclosure crisis and into a new era of prosperity.

Before that, he worked at The Palm Beach Post covering retail, tourism and commercial real estate.

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.