Barron’s hires Walsh to cover banking/fintech

Ben Walsh

Barron’s editor Katherine Bell sent out the following announcement:

Hi everyone,
I’m excited to share the news that Ben Walsh will join Barron’s next week as a reporter focusing on banking and fintech. Previously he was the chief business reporter at HuffPost and before that he was an online editor and business writer at Reuters. Ben began his journalism career at Business Insider after working for five years at Goldman Sachs. His first day will be January 2nd.

Walsh worked on Reuters’ “Counterparties,” a product focused on bringing together the best business, finance and economics writing on the web, and covered the 2014 World Cup from Rio.

At Goldman Sachs, Walsh worked in the environmental markets group, investor marketing group and in the executive office.

He is a University of Chicago graduate.

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.