Arends hired by Barron’s to cover small cap stocks

Brett Arends

Longtime business journalist Brett Arends has been hired by Barron’s to cover small cap stocks.

He will start after the first of the year.

Arends is no stranger to Dow Jones & Co. He previously wrote for SmartMoney, its now-defunct magazine, as well as working as a columnist for the Wall Street Journal online and then for MarketWatch.

He also worked at TheStreet.com, where he won a SABEW award for distinguished commentary. Before that, from 2004 to 2006, he was a business columnist for the Boston Herald.

He is a veteran of McKinsey & Co., for whom he was a consultant in the mid-1990s, and London’s Fleet Street, where he wrote for the Daily Mail, Private Eye and numerous other publications.

Arends is also the author of “Storm Proof Your Money: Weather Any Economy, Rebuild Your Portfolio, Protect Your Future,” a personal finance book.

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.