WSJ hires Solomont to cover wealth and property

Elizabeth Solomon

Elizabeth Solomont

The Wall Street Journal has hired Elizabeth Solomont as a reporter on its real estate team to cover wealth and property.

She started on Wednesday.

Solomont has been at The Real Deal for the past seven years covering property technology. Before that, she spent four years at the St. Louis Business Journal as a reporter.

She also worked at the New York Daily Sun and Jerusalem Post. Solomont holds degrees from Tufts University and Columbia 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.