Huffington Post lays off biz reporter Walsh

Ben Walsh

Business reporter Ben Walsh was among the journalists laid off Wednesday by The Huffington Post.

Walsh, who covered money and finance, joined Huffington Post in September 2014.

For the previous three years, Walsh served as online editor and business writer at Reuters. He worked on Reuters’ “Counterparties,” a product focused on bringing together the best business, finance and economics writing on the web, and covered the 2014 World Cup from Rio.

Previously, Walsh covered Wall Street and banking for Business Insider, and worked at Goldman Sachs for five years in the Environmental Markets Group, Investor Marketing Group and in the Executive Office.

He is a University of Chicago 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.