Cheddar hires Bennatan from Fox News to be a reporter

Lisa Bennatan

Cheddar has hired Lisa Bennatan from Fox News, where she was an associate producer/writer, to be an on-air reporter.

Previously, Bennatan was a video journalist at The Daily Caller, which she joined in 2020 as a fellow. She was also an on-air host at Bleav Podcast Network.

Earlier, she interned at CNN, NBCUniversal Media, Fidelity Investments and CBS Radio.

She was also a news anchor at Centre County Report and has reported for the Centre County Gazette.

Bennatan holds a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism, political science and Spanish from Penn State University and a LLM from Georgetown University Law Center.

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.