Phoenix Business Journal hires Vanek to cover commercial real estate

Corina Vanek

The Phoenix Business Journal has hired Corina Vanek to cover commercial real estate and the economy for the paper.

She started Tuesday. Vanek replaces Mike Sunnucks, who moved to the Sports Business Journal.

Vanek previously was a reporter at the Arizona Daily Sun, the local newspaper in Flagstaff, Arizona. While working at the Daily Sun, she received first place from the Arizona Newspapers Association in her paper’s category for a feature story, and second place for a news story.

She graduated in May 2015 from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University with two bachelor’s degrees, one in journalism and the other in human communication.

Her work has been published in various newspapers, including The Arizona Republic, The State Press and The Desert Shamrock. Along with reporting, she has also worked in a public relations capacity for Healthcare Interactive, and as a digital content manager for Republic Media.

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.