CNBC hires Lombardo for “The Exchange” and “Power Lunch”

Chelsea Lombardo

CNBC has hired former Yahoo Finance producer Chelsea Lombardo to work on two shows — “The Exchange” and “Power Lunch.”

She will start on Monday.

She previously was a line producer for a daily live two-hour show at Yahoo Finance. She joined in 2018 as an intern, and since then, held the posts of production assistant and associate producer.

She was also an intern media assistant at Athletic Media and has interned at DIGA Studios, a content studio in New York.

Lombardo has a B.A. from Adelphi 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.