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MarketWatch.com hires Sumagaysay to cover the gig economy

Levi Sumagaysay

MarketWatch.com has hired Levi Sumagaysay to cover the gig economy.

She will start on July 20.

Sumagaysay had previously been at Protocol, the new tech news site from the owners of Politico, before leaving in April.

Sumagaysay reported on Silicon Valley. She joined Protocol from the San Jose Mercury News, where she was a tech reporter.

A former business news editor and writer of Good Morning Silicon Valley, which was one of the earliest blogs to chronicle the rise of the internet, Sumagaysay has written or edited technology news since the first dot-com boom.

At the Mercury News, Sumagaysay was also the business copy chief and assistant business editor.

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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