MarketWatch hires Wong to cover personal finance

Venessa Wong

MarketWatch.com has hired Venessa Wong as a personal finance reporter.

Wong previously worked at BuzzFeed for eight years, most recently as a senior reporter. She was also deputy business and tech editor at BuzzFeed and wrote about money and how it’s spent.

She had been at BuzzFeed since May 2015 and initially covered food, beverage, and restaurant companies.

Before BuzzFeed, Wong worked at Bloomberg Businessweek as an associate editor. She also spent four years in China.

Wong has a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College 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.