Louisville Biz First real estate reporter Finley is leaving

Marty Finley

Ryan Finley, the commercial real estate reporter at Louisville Business First, is leaving the publication.

His last day will be June 25.

Finley has accepted an editing and project management role outside of journalism. He has been at the paper since August 2014, covering commercial and residential real estate, economic development and sports business.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed covering real estate and economic development in the Louisville area the past seven years and have met some incredible people along the way,” he wrote on Twitter.

Before that, he was a reporter for The News Enterprise in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, covering local and state government, health care, economic development and business while serving as the beat reporter for Fort Knox.

Finley was also a reporter, news editor and managing editor for the newspaper in Richmond, Kentucky.

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.