De Rosa departs Pensions & Investments for startup

Anthony De Rosa

Anthony De Rosa, the digital content director for Pensions & Investments, has left the Crain Communications publication.

De Rosa has become head of content and product for ON_Discourse, a new media venture focused on the business of technology.

DeRosa previously was audience editor for The Wall Street Journal’s U.S. news coverage.

Before joining the Journal, he was digital production manager for “The Daily Show,’’ where his Emmy Award-winning team built a digital department for the relaunch with Trevor Noah as host. Before that, De Rosa was editor in chief of the news app Circa, which broke new ground on news summarization and led the way in mobile-first news thinking.

Prior to Circa, De Rosa was a well-known Reuters columnist, a TV host and he led social media and live coverage of breaking news events for Reuters.com.

He began his career with jobs as a web developer and product manager.

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.