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Levisohn named ME for markets at Barron’s

Ben Levisohn

Ben Levisohn has been named managing editor for markets, managing the daily markets coverage, at Barron’s.

He will also write the Trader column.

Levisohn has been with Barron’s since December 2012, first as the emerging markets editor and then as a markets reporter and blogger. He wrote Streetwise, a weekly column offering opinions on market issues ranging from stock valuation and sector leadership to Fed policy. Levisohn quintupled traffic for the blog Stocks to Watch by creating content about individual equities and the stock market.

He’s a former reporter at The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and at Bloomberg News.

Levisohn is a former trader who returned to college to receive a master’s in journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of 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.

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