Real Deal reporter Kromrei is departing for Housing Wire

Georgia Kromrei, a reporter at The Real Deal in New York, is leaving the news organization.

Her last day is Wednesday. She will start at HousingWire, as a senior mortgage reporter on April 1.

“I’ve had the absolute privilege of working with some of the sharpest people around, on a beat that has been full of drama and tumult,” she wrote on Twitter.

Kromrei has been at the real estate publication since May 2019.

She holds a master’s degree in journalism and in computer science 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.