MarketWatch.com hires Riquier as its housing finance reporter

Steve Goldstein, Washington bureau chief for MarketWatch.com, sent out the following announcement on Monday:

Please welcome our new housing finance reporter, Andrea Riquier, based in DC. Most recently at Investor’s Business Daily, she also worked at Debtwire, alongside Ellie, and also interned at Bloomberg. Andrea now has a vastly different commute, seeing as how she previously had to turn left coming out of the Farragut North metro station, and now has to turn right.

At Investor’s Business Daily, her beat included everything shaping the macro economy, such as housing, jobs, manufacturing, consumer spending, and more. She also covered the Fed and its long slow slog toward normalization, the Bank of Japan and the promise of Abenomics, and the ECB and challenges for the future of the Eurozone.

Previously, she covered distressed and high-yield municipal debt, as well as more general public finance issues for Debtwire. She broke lots of news about public pensions, especially about CalPERS.

Riquier is a graduate of Boston University.

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.