Kleimann promoted to managing editor at HousingWire

James Kleimann

James Kleimann has been promoted to managing editor at HousingWire.

He has been mortgage editor for the past four months. Before that, he was with The Real Deal, joining as deputy web editor. Later on, he held the post of managing web editor, leading a team of 20 reporters, producers, digital artists and editors on the real estate beat among other tasks.

He has also worked as a supervising reporter at NJ.com and served as reporter, editor, photographer, videographer, social media manager for two AOL-Patch sites in Bergen County, New Jersey. Additionally, he also worked as a freelancer at journalism publications in New Jersey.

Kleimann is a graduate of Champlain College.

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.