Marte departs Reuters for new opportunity

Jonnelle Marte, who has been covering the Federal Reserve and the economy for Reuters, is leaving the news organization for a new opportunity.

She had been at Reuters since September 2019.

Marte previously worked at The Washington Post writing about wealth and retirement. She also worked at MarketWatch, where she was the lead writer for the tax blog and wrote often about the economy and the impact of the health care law on employers and consumers.

Before MarketWatch, Marte wrote for the Wall Street Journal Sunday, often on employment and consumer trends, and held internships at the Boston Globe, Detroit News and Miami Herald.

She graduated in 2008 from Florida International University, double-majoring in chemistry and political science.

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.