Mergermarkt hires Jiang as a reporter in Charlottesville

Ethel Jiang

Mergermarket has hired Ethel Jiang to be a reporter in its Charlottesville, Virginia, office.

She will cover deals in the Southeast and starts this week.

Jiang has been a fellow at Business Insider’s Markets Insider site for the past eight months, writing three to six posts a day covering the latest stock movements, fun facts of technology companies and market trends.

She interned last summer at Morning Consult. She also worked for The Wall Street Journal as a news assistant in Beijing.

Jiang holds a bachelor’s degree from Renmin University of China and a master’s degree from Northwestern 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.