Categories: OLD Media Moves

Marketwatch deputy markets editor moves to Wall Street Journal

Polya Lesova, the deputy markets editor at Marketwatch.com for the past two years, is moving to the real-time news desk at The Wall Street Journal.

She will start her new job on Monday.

In her most recent job, Lesova assisted the markets editor with managing a team of 14 reporters and editors based in the U.S., Europe and Asia who cover news that move the equities, commodities, bonds and currencies markets.

She previously was the London bureau chief for Marketwatch and a markets reporter in New York and Frankfurt.

Lesova has degrees from the American University in Bulgaria and from New York 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.