In March 2008, Noelle Knox left USA Today to be the new real estate editor of The Associated Press, where she will help create and lead a new real estate and home news service offering breaking news, enterprise features, service articles, multimedia and data.

Inman News named her one of the 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders of 2008.

Knox, who has a Virginia real estate license, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in economics. She was a reporter for various news companies in California, Washington and in Detroit before joining the AP for the first time in 1998, covering banking and investment banking in New York. She joined USA Today as a business writer in 2000 and, three years later, became a European correspondent based in Brussels, a position she held until taking over the U.S.-based real estate beat in 2006.

While real estate is her passion, her 18-year career in journalism has taken her to more than a dozen states and 16 countries. She has covered Sept. 11th from the streets of New York; the death of Pope John Paul II from the Vatican; NATO operations in Afghanistan; labor strikes at General Motors from the picket lines in Dayton, Ohio; the dot-com bust in 2000; and she has written more than 100 articles about the current real estate downturn and how it is reshaping communities and lives nationwide.