Shazar named Dealbreaker editor

Jon Shazar

Jon Shazar has been named editor of Dealbreaker, a business news site that covers Wall Street gossip.

He replaces Thornton McEnery, who is leaving for a job covering Wall Street at the New York Post.

Shazar has been a contributing editor to Dealbreaker since November 2016 after freelancing for the site for four years. He has also been a contributor to sister blogs Above the Law and MedCityNews, authoring advertiser-sponsored posts, interviews and other pieces covering both the legal and life sciences industries.

He previously worked as managing editor of FINalternatives and for Institutional Investor News.

McEnery’s last day at Dealbreaker was Wednesday.

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.