Categories: OLD Media Moves

Marketwatch reporter Salisbury leaving for Money

Ian Salisbury, who writes for Dow Jones & Co.’s Marketwatch.com site, announced Friday to his colleagues that he is leaving the organization.

“After almost 10 years, today is my last one at Dow Jones,” said Salisbury in his note to his co-workers. “Next month, I will be writing for Money magazine.”

Salisbury said in an email to Talking Biz News that he will cover investments at Money,

Before coming to MarketWatch, Salisbury was a staff writer for SmartMoney magazine, which had its print publication shut down last year, and a columnist for Dow Jones Newswires.

At Dow Jones, Salisbury wrote about investments including exchange-traded funds and separately managed accounts. He joined Dow Jones Newswires in 2003. Previously, he was editor of Asset Finance International, a Euromoney PLC publication.

He has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor of arts from Columbia University.

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.