Quartz hires McDuling as corporate reporter

John McDuling, a former reporter for the Australian Financial Review based in New York, has been hired by Quartz, the business news site operated by The Atlantic.

McDuling confirmed the hire on Twitter.

McDuling had previously covered the telecommunications business and policy from the Financial Review’s Sydney newsroom.

“I’ll be covering global corporate activity — M&A, earnings and so on — across most sectors and geographies,” said McDuling in an email to Talking Biz News. “Excited to be joining such a forward thinking, innovative newsroom.”

McDuling also covered global markets for the Financial Review. He began his career in the finance industry in London, working for Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank.

He has a degree in economics from the University of Sydney.

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.