CNBC hires Harring as a reporter on the markets team

Alex Harring

CNBC has hired Alex Harring as a reporter on its markets team.

Harring is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, where he studied English and political science. He interned this summer at The Wall Street Journal.

He worked for four years at The Michigan Daily, most recently leading the Culture, Training and Inclusion team, and as a news editor and reporter before that.

Harring previously interned at CNN, CNBC and The Detroit News, and he spent the spring at NBC News in the Business, Technology and Innovation Unit.

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.