Biz correspondent Schaffler leaving NJ PBS after 7 years

Rhonda Schaffler

Rhonda Schaffler, the business correspondent for NJ Spotlight News, is leaving after seven years for a new opportunity.

Schaffler was previously was with Reuters News, where she recently served as an anchor, correspondent and producer for Reuters Insider, one of the organization’s financial video products.

Schaffler has more than 20 years of experience as a broadcast financial journalist for global organizations including Bloomberg, Dow Jones and CNN. She was an anchor and senior business correspondent for CNN from 1999 to 2005.

She has reported on a wide variety of topics, including wealth management, investment strategy, commodities and energy, the economy, and politics.

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.