South Florida Biz Journal loses money reporter to Real Deal

Keith Larsen

Keith Larsen, the South Florida Business Journal’s money reporter, has resigned to accept a job with The Real Deal.

He starts his new job in two weeks writing trend stories. He will continue to be based in Miami.

The Real Deal covers real estate news and has websites for the New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago markets.

At the Business Journal, Larsen covered banking, wealth and finance, investments, fraud, private equity firms, economic development and insurance.

Larsen previously had been a reporter for Greenbiz.com.

Larsen earned his master’s in mass communication from the UNC-Chapel Hill. He holds a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, where he majored in in finance and minored in 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.