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WSJ reporter Burne elected NYFWA president

Katy Burne, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has been elected president of the New York Financial Writers’ Association.

Burne writes about credit markets and derivatives for the Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in New York. Her coverage areas include bonds and loans, credit-default swaps and interest-rate swaps, trading technology/platforms, market structure and regulation.

Previously, she was managing editor of Derivatives Week, a Euromoney Institutional Investor newsletter, and before that she was managing editor of Power Finance & Risk, also at Euromoney.

Burne has a post-graduate diploma in magazine journalism from Harlow Journalism Center in the U.K. and a BA from the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne in psychology.

Stephen Foley, a U.S. investment correspondent for the Financial Times, covering the asset management industry, hedge funds and institutional and retail investment issues, was elected vice president.

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.