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MarketWatch.com reporter McKenna departs

Francine McKenna

Francine McKenna, a reporter at MarketWatch.com, has left the Dow Jones publication after four-and-a-half years.

McKenna covered financial regulation and legislation with an eye on transparency at the SEC, PCAOB, FASB, CFTC, CFPB, FINRA and at hearings in the Senate and House.

She plans to stay in Washington and continue to teach in the American University MBA program and lecture to business and journalism programs. She is also working with some professors on research related to the KPMG/PCAOB scandal.

McKenna also has an agent interested in a book about the MF Global failure.

She previously wrote for Forbes and American Banker.

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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