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FinLedger reporter Ayers departs in career switch

Rebecca Ayers

FinLedger reporter Rebecca Ayers has left the publication and plans to switch careers into social work.

She joined FinLedger in November 2020, reporting on the B2B fintech industry by breaking news, covering trends and assisting the managing editor with covering other stories.

The fintech-focused news site for financial services professionals launched earlier this year from the parent of HousingWire.

Ayers previously was the Money beat reporter at the Dallas Business Journal. Before that, she was the digital reporter for the American City Business Journals paper.

She previously held internship roles at GrepBeat, an online publication focusing on tech coverage, particularly startups, in the Research Triangle, and the Triad Business Journal in Greensboro.

Ayers is a UNC-Chapel Hill 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.

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