MarketBeat hires Bennett as associate editor

MarketBeat.com has hired Bridget Bennett as an associate editor.

She previously was an evening anchor at KELO in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Bennett also worked at KFAU and KSFY as an anchor and a reporter.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Southern Methodist University.

MarketBeat, which has more than 4 million subscribers, provides content around investing.

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.