McCabe departs Investopedia

Alec McCabe

Alec McCabe, Investopedia as associate editorial director, has left the personal finance website.

“I’m proud of my colleagues and I for quintupling Investopedia’s daily news output in less than a year,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “And it was time for a change.”

Before Investopedia, McCabe was a senior news editor at The Real Deal.

He is a veteran Bloomberg journalist, which he joined in 1994 as a government bond reporter. There, he held various other roles, including reporter, Hong Kong bureau chief, enterprise Asia editor, global newsroom recruiter and senior editor.

McCabe graduated 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.