Philly Inquirer names Bond its new real estate reporter

Michaelle Bond

The Philadelphia Inquirer has tapped Michaelle Bond as its new residential real estate reporter.

She replaces Caitlin McCabe, who left left week for a job at The Wall Street Journal.

Bond has been a regional governing reporter for the Inquirer, covering government news and trends in the region’s counties and municipalities, from the Philadelphia suburbs to South Jersey. She has worked at the Inquirer since 2013.

Bond, who interned at the New York Times, holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in digital media from Columbia 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.