MNI hires Garcia as Latin American central banking correspondent

Larissa Garcia

MNI has hired Larissa Garcia to be its Latin Amerian central banking correspondent.

Garcia will be based in Brasilia.

She will initially focus on the region’s two most closely watched monetary authorities — Banco Central do Brasil and Banco de Mexico.

Garcia previously worked at financial newspaper Valor Economico, where she covered the Brazilian central bank and the country’s economy. She also worked at Folha de Sao Paulo and spent five years as a staffer at the Brazilian central bank.

She also worked at Correio Braziliense.

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.