Categories: OLD Media Moves

Fortune.com hires new Wall Street reporter

Megan Barnett, the managing editor of Fortune.com, sent out the following staff announcement on Friday afternoon:

I’m pleased to announce that Steve Gandel will join Fortune.com on Monday to cover Wall Street for the Term Sheet section of the site. Steve was most recently a senior business writer for Time, and before that was at Money Magazine and Crain’s New York Business. He got his start covering the stock-market boom of the late 1990s at Individual Investor Magazine.

Steve will add daily commentary and news analysis on everything from Wall Street bonuses to the MF Global meltdown to the impact of the Volcker Rule. Like Colin Barr before him, Steve will be headquartered in the CNN Money newsroom but we’ll still see him regularly here on the 18th floor. I’ll plan to introduce him at a morning meeting next week so you can join me in welcoming him.

At Time, Gandel covered real estate, economics and Wall Street. He the senior Wall Street reporter for Crain’s New York Business. He has held positions at the Riverfront Times in St. Louis.

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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