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TheStreet hires two new reporters

Financial news site TheStreet.com has hired two new reporters — one to cover bankruptcy and distressed situations and another to cover activist investors.

Stephanie Gleason has been hired to cover bankruptcy and distressed companies. She previously worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering the same topics since 2011.

Prior to that, Gleason was a business reporter for Capital News Service. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from Loyola Marymount and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.

Vishesh Kumar has been hired as a senior correspondent covering activist situations.

For the past eight years, Kumar has been a general partner at Wofi Capital, a venture capital and private equity investor in technology companies.

Kumar previously worked at The Journal as a tech reporter from 2007 to 2009 and was an internet and tech reporter at TheStreet from 2006 to 2007.

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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