NY Daily News real estate writer dies

Jason Sheftell, a prolific real estate reporter for the New York Daily News, died this weekend at the age of 46.

Edgar Sandoval and Corky Siemaszko of The Daily News write, “‘He had an enthusiasm and a zest for life that was infectious,’ Myler said. ‘He was probably the most popular guy in the newsroom — everybody loved him because he was always there when you needed him.’

“Sheftell’s ‘dedication to his role as a real estate reporter was legendary,’ Myler added.

“‘He will leave a void that will never be filled in the Daily News family,’ he said. ‘To use his own phrase when his father passed a couple of years ago: ‘He was a good man, with a great heart, and that’s all we can ask of anyone’.’

“Sheftell had been expected at a family gathering over the weekend and when he failed to show his worried kin called The News.

“A Daily News reporter dispatched to Sheftell’s home arrived on the heels of the reporter’s old friend, Kyle Carmon, who had a key to the apartment and found his friend dead.”

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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.