Markets reporter Brown departs Axios

Courtenay Brown

Axios markets reporter Courtenay Brown is leaving the news organization.

She has been with Axios since August 2018. She covers trends in financial markets and the economy.

Brown wrote the “Axios Closer” newsletter. It features new insight on the business stories capturing everyone’s attention, plus exclusive reporting on the big trends in and out of corporate America and context on why they matter.

Brown previously worked as a producer for CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

She holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University and a master’s degree from Columbia University.

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.