Banking reporter Freed leaves Reuters

Dan Freed

Reuters banking reporter Dan Freed has left the news organization after two and a half years.

Freed has been hired as a director at D.S. Wolf Group International, which is based in New York and works with financial companies.

“Reuters is an outstanding news organization, and it wasn’t an easy decision to leave, but after nearly 18 years as a financial journalist I wanted to try something different,” said Freed in a message to Talking Biz News.

At Reuters, Freed covered Bank of America and Wells Fargo. He joined in July 2015 from The Street.

Freed, who has been at The Street since April 2008, has been covering Wall Street since 2000. He has been a reporter for Wall Street Letter, BondWeek, Corporate Financing Week, Real Estate Finance & Investment, Investment Dealers’ Digest and Institutional Investor magazine. He has also published freelance writing in New York Press and The New York Sun.

He was an assistant managing editor at Investment Dealers’ Digest. Freed graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in English.

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.