Climate reporter Clifford among those laid off at CNBC.com

Cat Clifford

CNBC.com climate innovation and technology reporter Cat Clifford was among those laid off earlier this month.

“The work I did while covering climate for the last 2.5 years is absolutely the best work I have ever done in my career as a journalist and I am deeply proud of it,” she wrote on LinkedIn.

Clifford previously spent five years as one of the first writers hired to launch the Make It channel of CNBC.com.

She also worked at Entrepreneur and CNNMoney.com. Clifford holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and art history from Columbia 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.