National Mortgage News hires Lee as a reporter

Spencer Lee

National Mortgage News has hired Spencer Lee as a reporter.

He started on Tuesday.

Lee has been freelancing for the past two years, covering urban and business topics from the rural economy to the drone industry for publications, such as Straus News, Times of Entrepreneurship and Times Square Investment Journal.

He interned at Skift and at WNYC. Lee is a graduate of the CUNY Gradate School of Journalism.

Prior to entering journalism, he worked in public health research and also was a music host at KBCS-FM in Bellevue, Washington. he earned a BA from the University of Washington.

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.