WSJ hires Parker to cover real estate

Will Parker

The Wall Street Journal has hired Will Parker to cover rental housing, apartment construction and related policy issues.

Parker has previously been at The Real Deal, where he was a special projects editor and reporter in New York for the past seven months. He previously worked at The Real Deal as a reporter.

He previously was an English teacher in Spain.

Parker holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee.

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.