Westfair hires Real as ME of video

Erin Ade Real

Veteran journalist Erin Ade Real, formerly of CNN, has joined the Westfair Communications as managing editor and anchor of its videocasts on business news.

Westfair is the parent of the Westchester County Business Journal and Fairfield County Business Journal.

“Erin brings vitality and new vision to Westfair’s ever-popular ‘News at Noon’ and will reorient the way we deliver important business news to our viewers,” said Dee DelBello, publisher/owner of Westfair Communications, in a statement. “This is an exciting time for Westfair, and we look forward to her shaping our unique, new videocasts.”

A native New Yorker, Real graduated from Quinnipiac University.

Real previously launched RT Television’s “BoomBust,” writing, producing and anchoring the live, daily, international finance and economics show.

Most recently, Real served as a freelance correspondent for CNN/“CNNMoneyMatters,” where she reported live from the Nasdaq Stock Exchange for CNN, CNN Money and HLN.

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.