MarketWatch.com hires Huggins as a reporter

Katherine Huggins

MarketWatch.com has hired Katherine Huggins as a reporter covering the midterm elections and politics.

Huggins has been interning on the money and markets team at Forbes. She previously was a part-time reporter for Mediaite.

She holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University. While in school, she worked for the Medill News Service and interned for OpenSecrets. She also contributed to MarketWatch.

Huggins holds an undergraduate degree from The New School.

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.