MarketWatch reporter Cherney moving to Barron’s to cover tech

Max Cherney

MarketWatch reporter Max Cherney will be moving to sister publisher Barron’s in June to cover technology.

He has been with MarketWatch since July 2017. Most recently, he was covering public pot companies.

He previously covered e-commerce for IBD, with a focus on Amazon, and most recently was a staffer for J, the Jewish news weekly of northern California, where he investigated the rise in anti-Semitism at Bay Area schools since the election.

Cherney is originally from Toronto, Canada, and attended Trent University in Ontario before receiving an MFA at California College of the Arts. He has the Canadian equivalent of a Series 7 license and has been building his own computers since childhood.

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.