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Cox of Reuters Breakingviews named Ottaway visiting professor

Financial journalist Rob Cox has been named the 2017 James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor of Journalism at SUNY-New Paltz.

Cox will join the faculty in the spring of 2017 to teach an upper-level journalism seminar called “Financial Journalism and the Business of Media.”

Cox is the global editor of Reuters Breakingviews, the financial commentary division of Thomson Reuters. He helped found that publication in 2000 and guide it through its expansion into the United States in 2004 and its acquisition by Thomson Reuters in 2009.

He is a frequent contributor to CNBC and has written opinion pieces for the Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, Newsweek, USA Today and other publications.

A resident of Newtown, Conn., Cox also helped found Sandy Hook Promise, an organization dedicated to preventing gun violence that formed in the wake of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Cox visited New Paltz during the fall 2015 semester to speak with psychology, journalism and disaster mental health students about his career and his experiences working with this group.

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.