Personal finance writer Geier departs for software engineering

Ben Geier

Personal finance journalist Ben Geier has left journalism and is now studying software engineering.

He was at CBS News covering personal finance.

He previously was an editor at SmartAsset. He joined in March 2018 as an editor and writer. Before that, he covered all types of breaking news related to business, markets and financial policy at CNNMoney.

Before that, Geier curated the news for CNNMoneyStream (CNNMoney’s mobile app). He was a contract writer at Mic and a reporter at Fortune Magazine. He also reported for InvestmentWires and interned at The Columbus Dispatch and Roll Call.

Geier has a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s degree from the City University of New York.

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.