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Cheung becomes full-time anchor at Yahoo Finance

Brian Cheung and Akiko Fujita

Brian Cheung has become a full-time anchor for Yahoo Finance.

He will be on the air from 11 a.m. to noon with anchor Akiko Fujita covering the day’s big finance stories.

Cheung has been a fill-in anchor. He joined Yahoo Finance in October 2018 to cover the Federal Reserve, banking, and economics. He will continue to report across Yahoo Finance programming and its website on those topics.

He previously worked at S&P Global Market Intelligence as a reporter covering bank regulators, lobbying groups and policymakers. He also worked at the Federal Reserve Board as an analyst.

Cheung holds a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins 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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