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Seattle biz journal hires new reporter

Business reporter Marc Stiles has joined the Puget Sound Business Journal as a staff writer covering commercial real estate and government.

Erin Van Bronkhurst of the paper writes, “Stiles reported for the Seattle-based Daily Journal of Commerce for a total of eight years, covering commercial real estate, Sound Transit and Seattle City Hall.

“He has written about or worked in real estate for about 15 years, including a short stint as a junior broker for Colliers International, which he said ‘gives me some perspective on what a broker goes through.’

“‘What I find interesting about commercial real estate is that the people in the business are skyline changers,’ he said, ‘and to write about something as important as a sense of place is to me very rewarding.’

“Stiles’ arrival will give PSBJ colleague Jeanne Lang Jones a chance to concentrate on the retail and residential real estate beats.

“During a 25-year career in newspapers, Stiles has won 33 awards for writing, editing, photography and page design.”

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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.