Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ names national housing reporter

Laura Kusisto has been named the national housing reporter for The Wall Street Journal, according to Tony Wilbert.

Wilbert writes, “The paper’s global real estate bureau has tapped current WSJ reporter Laura Kusisto to cover the beat, previously handled by Conor Dougherty, who now writes The New York Times’ Bits column about The Business of Technology.

“As for Laura, she currently covers economic development and neighborhoods for the Journal’s Greater New York section. It’s expected she’ll move to the real estate team within a month or so.

“Kusisto has been busy this week as one of the writers on the big story about Mercedes-Benz moving its U.S. headquarters to an Atlanta suburb. (Disclosure: The Wilbert Group represents JLL Atlanta, which played a key role with JLL’s Chicago and Dallas offices in the Mercedes move.)”

Read more here. She previously worked at the New York Observer and as a freelance reporter in Turkey and Israel.

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.