MT Newswires hires O’Connor as VP of biz development

Rob O'Connor

Rob O’Connor

Rob O’Connor has been hired by business news company MT Newswires as vice president of business development.

He started on Monday.

O’Connor will focus on structuring enterprise license partnerships with banks, brokerage firms, trading applications and financial news distributors in North America.

Prior to joining MT Newswires, O’Connor held business development positions with The Associated Press, Reuters, NewsEdge and International Business Times. He is based in New York.

MT Newswires provides news and analysis of developed capital markets and economies globally. Its Live Briefs news services are offered on most of the leading wealth management, research and trading platforms in North America and Europe.

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.