Semafor hires McEnery to cover business and finance

Thornton McEnery

Semafor has hired Thornton McEnery to cover business and finance.

McEnery will start Jan. 22. He most recently was at The Messenger covering hedge funds and money managers.

He has been at The Daily Upside, which covers business and investing, as its executive editor. He was a MarketWatch.com markets reporter before leaving there in March 2022.

He previously was a business reporter at The New York Post covering Wall Street.

Before that post, McEnery was executive editor and senior editor at Dealbreaker. He also worked at Crain’s New York covering economics news. And he also worked at SNL Financial, now part of S&P Global Markets, covering banks and thrifts.

McEnery holds a master’s degree from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College.

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.