Tampa Bay Times real estate reporter to become political editor

Emily L. Mahoney, the real estate reporter for The Tampa Bay Times, is becoming its political editor for the paper, but will continue to report stories.

She had previously been a Florida government reporter for the paper in Tallahassee.

Before joining the Times, Mahoney was a data fellow for the Houston Chronicle. Before that, she served as an investigative reporting intern for the Miami Herald and as a reporter for Cronkite News. She also worked as a reporting intern for the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and held the posts of an investigative reporting fellow and international reporter for News21 and Cronkite Borderlands Initiative, respectively.

She has also interned at The Arizona Republic and worked as an investigative reporter at The State Press.

Mahoney received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in mass communication from Arizona State University.

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.