CNBC hires Passariello as San Fran bureau chief

Christina Passariello

CNBC senior vice president Dan Colarusso sent out the following Wednesday morning:

I am happy to announce Christina Passariello is joining CNBC as our San Francisco Bureau Chief. She will begin on February 12 and report to CNBC Managing Editor Lacy O’Toole.
Christina comes to us from The Washington Post, where she was most recently Deputy Business Editor after spending five years as its Technology Editor. Before that, she spent more than a decade at The Wall Street Journal, first covering European luxury and retail in its Paris bureau and then taking on the Deputy Technology Editor role in San Francisco. Christina also was part of the prestigious Knight Journalism Fellowship program at Stanford.
Christina, an experienced leader and award-winning journalist, will help us further cement our position in Silicon Valley and put CNBC in a prime position to deepen our technology coverage on TV.
Please join me in welcoming Christina to the CNBC team.

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.