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Forbes hires WSJ reporter Minaya

Ezequiel Minaya

Ezequiel Minaya, a reporter for the CFO Journal at The Wall Street Journal, has been hired as a staff writer at Forbes to cover corporate finance.

He has been at the Journal and Dow Jones since December 2010.

A New York City native, Minaya worked at the Los Angeles Times; McClatchy newspapers in Fresno and Modesto; and The Press-Enterprise near Los Angeles. He also reported for the Houston Chronicle.

He spent 13 months as an embedded war correspondent in Iraq writing for Stars and Stripes.

Minaya spent nearly five years covering Venezuela for the Wall Street Journal before transferring to the Real-Time news desk. He received his bachelors degree from Guilford College in North Carolina and a masters in journalism with an emphasis in Latin American studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

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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