Newsday hires LaMantia to cover residential real estate

Jonathan LaMantia

Newsday has hired reporter Jonathan LaMantia to cover residential real estate.

He has been a Knight-Bagehot fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

LaMantia previously was a senior reporter covering health care for Crain’s New York Business and its health care newsletter, Health Pulse. At Crain’s, he covered the business of health care in New York City, reporting on hospitals, health insurers, medical groups and the health policy decisions that affect the industry.

Earlier, LaMantia interned at Bloomberg News and Long Island Business News. He earned a B.A. in business journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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.