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Morning Consult hires Williams to write finance newsletter

Claire Williams

Claire Williams, who has reported on the retail industry at S&P Global Intelligence since February 2017, has been hired by Morning Consult to cover financial policy and to write the morning finance newsletter.

Williams’ last day at S&P Global is Oct. 12. She starts at Morning Consult on Oct. 18 and will be based in Washington.

At S&P Global, Williams focused on Walmart, the decline of U.S. shopping malls and the recent wave of bankruptcies in the sector. Her beat also included big-box retail, e-commerce, apparel/footwear and specialty retail companies that rank among the largest in the world, such as Amazon, Home Depot and Nike.

A UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, Williams previously covered Tyson Foods and agribusiness while at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

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.

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