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MarketWatch senior reporter Swartz departs for TechStrong

Jon Swartz

MarketWatch.com senior reporter Jon Swartz has left the news organization to become a senior content writer for TechStrong Group.

TechStrong is a media company covering IT industries and practices that are re-shaping the world of technology.

At MarketWatch, Swartz covered the inner workings of the tech industry accessible to a broad audience of retail investors and consumers, covering many of the biggest players, including Netflix, Facebook and Google. Swartz joined Barron’s Group as a senior reporter for Barron’s in 2017.

He frequently provides technology analysis in television appearances. Swartz is a respected and well-sourced technology writer, who came to Barron’s after 17 years as San Francisco bureau chief and a tech journalist for USA Today.

He has also written for Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle, MacWeek and several London dailies.

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.

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