Marketwatch personal finance editor moves to WSJ

Alice Hagge has joined the U.S. team at the Wall Street Journal on the real time desk.

Hagge comes most recently from the WSJ’s sister publication MarketWatch, where she’s worked for the past two years as a senior editor for personal finance. She was responsible for assigning and editing the site’s popular 10 Things They Won’t Tell You feature, as well as daily articles, columns and slide shows.

Prior to joining MarketWatch, Hagge was the assistant managing editor at SmartMoney magazine for two and a half years. Before that, she helped launch the industry-respected glossy monthly magazine Conde Nast Portfolio, where she served as copy chief. She has also worked as a freelance writer and editor, and served on the copy desks of Money magazine and Time magazine in New York and Business 2.0 magazine in San Francisco.

She has a journalism degree from the University of Georgia.

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.