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MarketWatch.com hires Binckes as senior news editor

Jeremy Binckes

MarketWatch.com has hired Jeremy Binckes as a senior news editor.

Binckes has been at MarketWatch parent News Corp. for the past two years working on an editorial project. He has implemented a newly developed  content management system, and trained leadership and new editors on the system.

He previously was at Salon for two years, originally hired as a cover editor, but quickly promoted to senior news editor, and then to managing editor. He directed the breaking news team of five writers, assigning and editing current event stories with immediate deadlines.

Binckes also worked at the New York Daily News as a copy editor and at Yahoo curating news for its app.

He is a Boston University 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.

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