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Real estate news site CoStar hires visual journalist

Rohit Shevni Diwadkar

Real estate news service CoStar news has hired its first visual information journalist — Rohit Shevni Diwadkar.

He started last week.

Diwadkar earned his master’s degree in information technology from UNC-Charlotte.

He will work with reporters to illustrate stories and make infographics based on CoStar’s proprietary data and information.

Diwadkar previously worked with Infosys in India as a system engineer.

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.

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