Real estate reporter Clarke joins WSJ

Katherine Clarke

Katherine Clarke of The Real Deal has joined The Wall Street Journal to cover residential real estate.

She started her new job on Monday.

Clarke had been a senior national reporter for the real estate publication. At the Journal, she will be writing for the Mansion section.

Clarke had been at the Real Deal since November 2015. Before that, she spent a year and a half at the New York Daily News as its real estate editor. She earlier worked at the Real Deal from 2011 to 2014.

She has a bachelor’s degree from Trinity University in Dublin and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.