MarketWatch hires Shi as social media editor

Jessie Shi

MarketWatch.com has hired Jessie Shi to be social media editor.

She started last week.

Shi previously was the social media editor at the San Antonio Express-News, where she started in January 2020 and led an 80 percent growth in social visits. She previously was project engagement manager at New York University, where she oversaw the News Literacy 2018 series on the latest journalism innovation and managed the department’s Twitter account.

She also worked at Barron’s as an audience engagement fellow.

Shi holds a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and a master’s degree from New York University in digital journalism innovation.

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.