MarketWatch.com names Schroeder its DC bureau chief

Rob Schroeder

MarketWatch.com has named Rob Schroeder its Washington bureau chief.

“Rob has covered three presidents and countless DC scandals, shutdowns, lockdowns, and hoe-downs, somehow without ever losing his cool,” wrote MarketWatch editor in chief Jeremy Olshan on Twtter.

Schroeder has been with MarkeWatch.com since August 2004, writing about financial regulation, politics and corporations.

Schroeder’s articles have appeared in The Washington Post, Time Asia, The Baltimore Sun, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications. From 1998 to 2001 he was a reporter for BridgeNews, covering U.S. foreign policy and energy.

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.