AP hires new financial markets reporter

Associated Press business editor Hal Ritter sent out the following announcement:

Say hello on Monday to Ken Sweet, who joins us in New York as a financial markets reporter. Ken comes to AP from Dow Jones where he was a copy editor and a reporter. He covered the private-equity industry for Dow Jones Newswires and supervised a team of reporters doing the same.
Before Dow Jones, Ken reported for Forbes and was a business news producer for CNNMoney. His first job in New York was general assignment reporter for Fox Business Network. He joined the network two months before its launch in October 2007 and spent 3½ years covering all the great business and economic stories. Besides reporting, Ken led the network’s social media push and was the lead editorial voice on FBN’s Twitter account.
Ken graduated from the University of Missouri with majors in journalism and political science.

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.