NerdWallet copy editor Simon departs

Doreen Simon

Doreen Simon, deputy copy chief at personal finance site NerdWallet, is leaving after more than 10 years.

She previously spent more than 14 years at the San Jose Mercury News as a copy editor and as a news wire services editor.

Simon also worked at the Tri-City Herald in Washington state and at the European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Washington 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.