CNBC hires Green as a news editor

Dennis Green

Dennis Green has joined CNBC as a news editor, reporting to deputy managing editor Elisabeth Cordova.

Green is part of the hot seat team, which oversees CNBC.com and helps determine the news priorities during the day.

Green most recently worked at Business Insider, where he reported on retail, lifestyle and e-commerce and edited the consumer desk. He was a senior editor overseeing coverage of consumer companies.

He graduated with a degree in philosophy from SUNY Geneseo in upstate New York, where he also interned at a few local newspapers.

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.