Investopedia taps Rennie as news director

Aaron Rennie

Investopedia has hired Aaron Rennie as its news director.

He has been working for the personal finance site since February as a contract editor.

Rennie was a breaking news editor at The Messenger, which shut in January. Before that, he was at The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for more than a decade.

There, Rennie held the posts of interactive news writer and senior publishing editor. He was also an editor at Business Wire.

Rennie has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.