Houston Chronicle hires Takahashi as real estate reporter

Paul Takahashi has been hired by the Houston Chronicle as a real estate reporter.

He started on Monday. He was previously covering real estate for the Houston Business Journal.

In an email to the staff, Chronicle editor Nancy Barnes wrote, “Paul has shown himself to be a superb reporter on the beat for the past three years at the Houston Business Journal.”

Before joining the Business Journal, Takahashi was a staff reporter for the Las Vegas Sun for four years, covering education. He also held editorial positions at The Jersey Journal in New Jersey and The Times in Johannesburg, South Africa.

He earned both master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern 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.