Yahoo Finance reporter McCormick departs for MBA

Emily McCormick

Emily McCormick, a senior reporter at Yahoo Finance, has left the news organization to pursue an MBA.

She had been at Yahoo Finance for nearly four years, primarily covering markets.

McCormick previously interned at Bloomberg News.

She is a graduate of UCLA in communication and media studies. While in school, she was digital managing editor of The Daily Bruin.

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.