Roland Jones

Producer/editor

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Roland Jones is a business editor at MSNBC.com. He also writes about the automotive industry and Wall Street. Roland joined the company in February 2001 after working for two years as a reporter at TheStreet.com, where he covered Internet technology and personal finance issues. He previously worked as a senior editor at Thomson Financial, and he once edited Manchester United’s official monthly magazine. Roland holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.

During the 2009-2010 academic year, Roland will be attending Columbia University in New York as a Knight-Bagehot fellow in economics and business journalism.