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AP names Fahey its global markets editor

Jonathan Fahey, national energy reporter at The Associated Press and a former Forbes associate editor, has been named AP’s global markets editor.

An AP story states, “Fahey will lead a team of business reporters and work with AP staff around the globe to explain the financial markets’ movements and mechanics to everyday investors. He also will manage AP’s Money & Markets, a service that customizes reports and digital tools on markets and the economy.

“‘Jon has distinguished AP on the energy beat for years,’ said Lisa Gibbs, AP’s business editor. ‘I know he’ll bring similar enthusiasm and drive to helping us find new ways to tell stories about markets.’

“Fahey, 45, will be based in New York. Before joining AP in 2010, he spent 10 years at Forbes as a reporter and associate editor. He also was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”

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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.