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WSJ real estate reporter Hudson leaves for CBRE Group

Wall Street Journal real estate reporter Kris Hudson is leaving the paper for a job handling media strategy at real estate brokerage firm CBRE Group.

He starts his new job on Dec. 16.

Hudson had been covering home-building companies and residential real estate, as well as real estate development in various Western states. He joined The Journal in 2005.

“It’s bittersweet,” wrote Hudson in a note on Facebook. “I’m beyond excited to tackle some new challenges and opportunities at CBRE, which crafted this job just for me. But I’m sad to be leaving the WSJ and to be wrapping a 21-year career in journalism that spanned seven newspapers in three states.”

Before The Journal, Hudson worked at the Denver Post for five years and at the Boulder Daily Camera in Colorado.

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.