San Antonio Biz Journal hires Parton as commercial real estate reporter

Mitchell Parton

The San Antonio Business Journal has hired Mitchell Parton as its new commercial real estate and retail reporter.

He replaces Ryan Salchert, who moved to the Dallas Business Journal.

Parton writes, “I’m an extremely recent — less than three weeks ago — graduate of the University of Cincinnati, where I studied journalism and jazz trumpet, oddly enough. Last summer, I interned at sister paper the Cincinnati Business Courier. Some of my favorite stories from my time there include Boston’s Tufts University acquiring more than $7 million of farmland in Greater Cincinnati, a Chicago nonprofit rehabbing a former construction HQ into an elementary school and Cincinnati’s first riverboat race in more than a decade.

“I also spent the last couple of years serving in a few different roles at The News Record, my alma mater’s independent student newspaper. There, I reported on a development project just outside of the university that aspires to be the next Silicon Valley, the missteps in UC’s creation of an interdisciplinary digital media program and the impending fate of the infamous 16-story concrete tower looming over UC’s campus.”

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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.