HousingWire hires Loeb winner Howley as real estate editor

Kathleen Howley

HousingWire said Thursday it is expanding its news coverage to directly cover the real estate agent community.

Jessica Guerin of HousingWire writes, “HousingWire announced today that Kathleen “KK” Howley will be joining the company’s editorial team in the newly created role of real estate editor.

“‘American residential real estate is an almost $30 trillion asset class, and for most families, a home is the largest investment they’ll ever make,’ Howley said. ‘Real estate agents will always be a vital part of this transaction and they deserve better access to improved content. It’s essential to get coverage of their market right – and we will.’

“Howley has been covering the real estate market since 2000 for Bloomberg and Forbes. At HousingWire, she will be focused on building a community around our real estate agent audience.

“In 2008, Howley won the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for her coverage of the financial crisis.”

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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.