MarketWatch.com hires Peters as a reporter

Bill Peters

MarketWatch has hired Bill Peters, previously a reporter at Investor’s Business Daily.

He started on Tuesday.

Peters had been with Investor’s Business for seven years, writing breaking news stories and features about the stock market and trends in the broader financial world, covering an array of topics, including the big banks, restaurants, airlines, retail and cryptocurrencies.

Peters was hired in March 2014 as a copy editor, began taking on reporting assignments eight months later and became a full-time reporter in October 2015.

He previously wrote for Inside.com. Peters holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts.

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.