MarketWatch.com AME Kerch has retired

Steven Kerch, an assistant managing editor at MarketWatch.com, has retired.

Kerch was also real estate editor and personal finance editor at the website, which he joined in February 2001.

Previously Kerch was real estate editor at the Chicago Tribune, where he oversaw three weekly real estate sections and managed a staff of a dozen writers and freelancers. He worked at the Tribune for nearly 22 years.

Kerch is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.

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.