OLD Media Moves

“What’s News?” daily podcast host Stewart leaving WSJ

Marc Stewart

Marc Stewart, host of The Wall Street Journal daily morning news podcast “What’s News?”, is leaving.

He joined the Journal in June 2020.

“I’ve learned something new every day from smart & gracious colleagues,” he wrote on Twitter. “More on my next adventure later.”

He previously had been freelancing for ABC News as an on-air TV reporter contributing to COVID-19 coverage on various platforms.

Stewart has also been a contributing writer to The Points Guy. He spent nearly nine years as a reporter and anchor at KMGH-TV in Denver and four years as a reporter and anchor for WSMV in Nashville. He also worked for WBIR in Knoxville, Tennessee, and WLNS in Lansing, Michigan.

Stewart completed a master’s degree in business and economics reporting at New York University.

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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