Marketwatch reporter leaving for National Journal

Eric Garcia, a reporter for Marketwatch.com in Washington, is leaving for the National Journal to cover politics.

For Marketwatch, he has been covering the worlds of high-frequency trading, insider trading and other hot-button regulatory subjects.

Garcia graduated in May 2014 from UNC-Chapel Hill, earning his bachelor’s degree in journalism with a focus in reporting, but got his real-world education in journalism working at the Daily Tar Heel, reporting on the N.C. General Assembly, voter ID and health care policy and interviewing political figures like Sen. Kay Hagan.

He has written for the New Republic, Salon, the Southern Political Report and the American Prospect.

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.