Longtime biz journalist Howley among the Bankrate.com layoffs

Kathleen Howley

Longtime business journalist Kathleen Howley, who was covering insurance for Bankrate.com, was among the layoffs this week at the personal finance site.

Before Bankrate, she was a senior reporter at The Messenger and editor in chief at Three Creeks Media.

She also was real estate editor and editor at large at Housing Wire. Before that, she had been covering the real estate market since 2000 for Bloomberg and Forbes.

In 2008, Howley won the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for her coverage of the financial crisis.

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.