Categories: OLD Media Moves

Sacramento biz paper hires new real estate reporter

Sanford “Sandy” Nax has bee named the new commercial real estate and construction reporter at the Sacramento Business Journal, replacing Michael Shaw.

Editor Jack Robinson writes, “Mike moved to Paris in April with his wife, a microbiologist who recently began a research fellowship there. His colleagues — especially our retail reporter, Kelly Johnson — have been covering real estate stories since then and are especially happy to see the job filled.

“Sandy is a veteran business journalist with long experience on the real estate beat and deep understanding of the industry. He worked as a business reporter at The Fresno Bee from 1988 to 2010 before taking a break from journalism to work for the San Joaquin Valley Clean Energy Organization.

“A graduate of California State Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo, Sandy also has worked for the Desert Sun in Palm Springs and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

“Sandy and I worked together in Fresno, where I was managing editor before joining the Business Journal early last year.”

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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.