MarketWatch.com hires Lang to cover personal finance

Hannah Lang

MarketWatch.com has hired Hannah Lang as a personal finance reporter.

She started Monday.

Lang previously was at The Charlotte Observer covering banking and finance before leaving in February to freelance.

Lang previously interned with the Wall Street Journal economics team in Washington, D.C. She is a 2020 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, where she covered university news for the Daily Tar Heel student newspaper, and studied business journalism.

Lang has previously interned for the Triangle Business Journal and the Charlotte Observer.

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.