Miami Herald hires Butler to cover real estate

Michael Butler

The Miami Herald has hired Michael M. Butler to cover real estate.

Butler has been working for Technically in Philadelphia for Report for America.

He previously was a freelance contributor in the Philadelphia area writing about culture, music and arts for local and national publications.

Butler worked for Metro Philadelphia as a reporter. He’s a Temple University graduate.

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.