Navera moving to Washington Business Journal

Tristan Navera

Tristan Navera, a reporter at Columbus Business First, is moving to its sister paper, the Washington Business Journal, to cover commercial real estate.

He replaces Daniel Sernovitz, who has become the Washington paper’s retail and hospitality reporter.

Navera has been the Columbus paper’s commercial real estate and development reporter since September 2017.

He previously worked at the Dayton Business Journal, where he covered workforce development, economic development, and technology.

Navera also worked at DaytonLocal.com. He is a graduate of Ohio 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.