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Passy is joining MarketWatch to cover trending money stories

Charles Passy

MarketWatch.com has hired Charles Passy to cover trending money stories.

“It’s a great website that stays on top of financial news, but is eager to look at anything and everything in the world with a curious eye,” he wrote on Twitter. “In other words, the perfect place for my next chapter.”

Passy has been with Dow Jones since April 2010, currently on staff at The Wall Street Journal, responsible for covering restaurants, cultural groups and Broadway for daily New York news pages and other parts of the paper and online.

Regularly write for the Journal’s page one, especially the popular A-hed feature devoted to all things quirky.  He has also contributed the “Weekend Sip” bottle-of-the-week column for MarketWatch.com, which has sometimes run in conjunction with a video feature on WSJ.com. That column will continue in his new job.

Passy previously worked at The Palm Beach Post for 17 years.

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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