La Roche leaves Yahoo Finance for You.com

Julia La Roche

Yahoo Finance correspondent Julia La Roche has left to become head of communications and public relations at You.com.

You.com is a private search engine that summarizes the Internet. It recently launched in beta mode.

She had been at Yahoo Finance since May 2016. She previously was at Business Insider as a senior finance reporter.

La Roche joined Business Insider in August 2011 after working at CNBC.com. La Roche is a graduate of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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.