Memphis Biz Journal hires MacLeod to cover commercial real estate

Stephen MacLeod

The Memphis Business Journal has hired Stephen MacLeod to cover commercial real estate.

A story on its website states, “He is covering commercial real estate and economic development. He takes over those beats from former reporter Jacob Steimer, who is now a Report for America corps member working with MLK50: Justice Through Journalism.

“MacLeod has rolled up his sleeves and is actively digging into Memphis business — but remotely, at first. The recent graduate of Quinnipiac University in Connecticut currently lives in New Hampshire and is ‘configuring a move to Memphis’ before too long. See below to learn more about him.

“Hometown: I grew up in Dracut, Massachusetts, but I tell everyone I’m from Lowell. You might know Lowell if you ever saw ‘The Fighter,’ where the movie takes place and was also shot. It’s about an hour north of Boston and right on the Massachusetts/New Hampshire border. Today, I live in a small town in New Hampshire but am hoping to move to Memphis soon.”

Read more here.

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.