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Barron’s hires Ungarino to cover Wall Street

Rebecca Ungarino

Barron’s editor in chief David Cho sent out the following on Monday:

All,

We are excited to announce Rebecca Ungarino is joining Barron’s as the newsroom’s Wall Street reporter.

Rebecca comes to us from Business Insider, where she served as a senior finance reporter covering asset management companies and other Wall Street firms. She produced several scoops on BlackRock, including a look inside the firm’s secretive consulting arm, Larry Fink’s succession plans and a piece detailing the boys’ club culture at the top. She also covered the wealth management industry and private equity, writing deep dives on the culture of brokerage BTIG, Merrill Lynch and allegations of mistreatment at PIMCO.

Rebecca has been at Business Insider since 2018. Before that, she worked at CNBC, where she served as an on-air producer, while writing stories about markets and investing. Rebecca, who lives in Brooklyn, graduated from Baruch College, where her major was business journalism. She notes she is a proud third-generation CUNY student.

Please join us in welcoming her to Barron’s.

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.

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