Siew among those laid off at Reuters

Walden Siew

Longtime business journalist Walden Siew is among those who are being laid off from Reuters.

Siew, who most recently has been an editor of the Reuters Global Markets Forum, will work at Reuters through Dec. 17.

“I’ve had a great run at Reuters, and got the chance to try something new and experiment with online financial communities,” said Siew in an email to Talking Biz News. “It’s been a tremendous learning experience.”

Siew was also deputy editor of wealth and finance at Reuters, overseeing the wealth management, investment management and investment banking top news pages on the Reuters website. Before that, he was a Reuters reporter for four years, covering structured finance, credit markets, distressed investing and trading in the corporate bond market.

Siew also previously worked at Bloomberg News as a corporate bond reporter, a U.S. Treasury/foreign exchange reporter, and an emerging market reporter on the international desk.

He also worked for Gannett, the Washington Times and as as an editor and correspondent for an online economic newsletter on Southeast Asia.

Siew, a former Society of American Business Editors and Writers board member, has degrees from Boston University and Northwestern.

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.