Plitt departing The Real Deal for MTA

Amy Plitt

Amy Plitt, an editor at The Real Deal in New York, is leaving the real estate news organization for a job at the MTA.

She will start next month as a content strategist for its website.

Plitt has been at The Real Deal since September 2020. She previously spent five years at Curbed New York, managing a team of reporters, along with a robust stable of freelance writers and photographers, to cover real estate, architecture, city history, neighborhoods, breaking news, and basically anything to do with the built environment.

She also was a digital editor for Conde Nast Traveler and spent more than eight years at Time Out New York as an associate editor, senior editor, and This Week in New York editor.

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.