Dow Jones hires Martinez to cover European economics

Maria Martinez

Maria Martinez has been hired as a reporter on the Dow Jones Newswires EMEA desk in Barcelona, where she covers European economics.

Before starting with Dow Jones in Spain — the country where she was born — she spent three years in New York City. Martinez started her days at 4 a.m. as a producer of the TV and radio show “Bloomberg Surveillance” and finished her days at 4 p.m. as a TV reporter during the closing bell in the New York Stock Exchange.

She also spent a year working for desdewallstreet.tv as a business reporter.

Martinez studied journalism and English studies at the University of Valencia, before moving to the U.S. to pursue a master’s of international affairs at Columbia University as a Fulbright scholar.

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.