Morning Brew hires Contreras for personal finance newsletter

Isabel Contreras

Morning Brew has hired Forbes reporter Isabel Contreras to cover money for its personal finance newsletter.

She started on Monday.

At Forbes, she has been covering banking, investing and everything related to money. Previously, she was an assistant editor, Money and Markets.

Prior to joining Forbes as a wealth editorial intern, Contreras was a contributing writer at the Boston Business Journal. She reported for The Daily Free Press in Boston. She was a newsroom fellow at WCVB-TV, the ABC-affiliate TV station in Boston.

Contreras has a B.A. from Boston 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.