Two biz journalists join PwC

Jennifer Merritt

Two longtime business journalists have joined accounting and consulting firm PwC in New York.

Jennifer Merritt has joined the firm as editor in chief for digital.

Merritt previously was the editor of BBC Capital, the business news website from the British television network. She came from Reuters, where she had been working on the wealth management coverage team. Before that, she was financial markets editor at the Associated Press.

She also had senior editorial positions overseeing personal finance, wealth and markets coverage at the Florida Times-Union, Money and smartmoney.com and wsj.com. She also has been department editor of management education at Business Week.

In addition, Tim Catts has joined the firm.

Catts has been managing editor of Business Insider Intelligence for the past 18 months. Before that, he spent six and a half years as a reporter and as a financial editor at Bloomberg News.

Catts also worked as a reporter at Crain’s New York Business.

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.