Houston Biz Journal hires Martin to cover commercial real estate

Florian Martin

The Houston Business Journal has hired Florian Martin to cover commercial real estate.

He will start on Monday.

Martin is the business reporter at Houston’s National Public Radio station KUHF and also covers criminal justice, guns and shootings.

He has earned awards from Texas AP Broadcasters, the Houston Press Club, National Association of Real Estate Editors, and Public Radio News Directors Inc., and he also won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting for his story uncovering important evidence in the police shooting of Baytown resident Pamela Turner.

After earning his M.A. in journalism, American studies and Hispanic studies at the University of Leipzig, Martin started off his new life interning in the KUHF newsroom.

After a 16-month stint as a reporter for Houston Community Newspapers, he was invited back to Houston Public Media in 2012 to take over the NewsLab Coordinator position and quickly morphed into a daily reporter.

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.