OLD Media Moves

MarketWatch hires crypto and cannabis/banking reporter

Frances Yue

MarketWatch.com has hired Frances Yue to cover cryptocurrencies and Steve Gelsi to cover cannabis and banking.

Yue most recently has been at CoinDesk. She also worked at Reog as a high-yield bond reporter, focusing on the Chinese market.

She previously interned at USA Today and worked at The Wall Street Journal China as a social media editor. Yue holds a master’s degree from New York University.

Steve Gelsi

Gelsi has spent the last three years at Institutional Investor covering private equity deal-making and people moves including acquisitions, sales, financings and trends. He also was an editor at InfraLatinAmerica and a senior editor at Buyouts magazine.

Gelsi worked at MarketWatch previously as its lead IPO reporter based in New York.  He is the author of “CBS MarketWatch, the Story Behind the Numbers … How America Made A Fortune and Lost Its Shirt.”

He previously worked at Forbes.com, BrandWeek and various daily newspapers. He was awarded the Keystone Press Award.

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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