Barlyn departs Reuters for The Hartford

Suzanne Barlyn

Longtime insurance reporter Suzanne Barlyn has left Reuters for a job at The Hartford.

Barlyn will become assistant director of media and public relations at the insurance company. Her first day is April 19.

Barlyn has been at Reuters since September 2011. For the first four years at the news agency, she wrote and edited wealth management columns.

Before Reuters, Barlyn worked at Dow Jones Newswires, where she wrote Compliance Watch, a column about regulatory and compliance issues affecting financial advisers. She also contributed to The Wall Street Journal and was a staff writer at Fortune magazine for two years.

Barlyn is a graduate of Wesleyan University.

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.