Fortune hires Quiroz-Gutierrez as a reporter

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Fortune magazine has hired Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez as a reporter covering politics and business, especially at the intersections of race, gender and money.

He will start April 1.

Quiroz-Gutierrez is currently an intern covering the markets for The Wall Street Journal.

He previously interned for the Charlotte Observer and for GrepBeat, a publication covering entrepreneurs in the Research Triangle Park. He also interned for the North Carolina Local News Workshop.

Quiroz-Gutierrez is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was managing editor and then editor of The Daily Tar Heel and majored in business journalism.

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.