Kilgore, editor of National Mortgage News, departs

Austin Kilgore

Austin Kilgore, the editor in chief of National Mortgage News, is leaving the Source Media publication.

His last day was Wednesday.

On Twitter, Kilgore wrote, “I’ll be sharing more news about what I have lined up next very, very soon.”

Kilgore had been editor in chief since August 2014, managing the editorial team and oversee daily news and analysis content for NationalMortgageNews.com and its monthly print magazine.

He also contributed to sister publication American Banker.

Kilgore was previously managing editor of National Mortgage News, managing editor of Payments Source and managing editor of Mortgage Technology.

He also worked as a reporter and associate editor of Housing Wire

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.

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