Categories: OLD Media Moves

LA Times hires new real estate reporter

Tim Logan, a business reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the past seven years, has been hired to cover real estate for the Los Angeles Times.

He will start his new position in early March, according to Times business editor Marla Dickerson. “We’re thrilled about it,” she said in an email to Talking Biz News.

Logan has won a Gerald Loeb Award for Business Journalism and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He has also won awards from the Society for American Business Editors and Writers and the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

Logan specializes in stories about urban development and regional economics, but he’s covered everything from crime to the business of health care to the beer industry.

After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Notre Dame, Logan worked at the South Bend Tribune and as a business reporter in New York. He also as a master’s in urban affairs from St. Louis 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.

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