CNBC hires WSJ’s Rizzo to cover media and sports

CNBC has hired Wall Street Journal reporter Lillian Rizzo to cover media and sports.

She had been a reporter in The Journal’s media and marketing bureau in New York.

She reported about companies in the cable, streaming and sports media industry, including Comcast, Paramount Global and Sinclair Broadcast. She took part in the coverage of the quick rise and fall of streaming service Quibi, which won recognition from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.

Previously, she covered private-equity deals and restructurings in the retail sector for the Journal, breaking news on some of the highest profile bankruptcy filings in the last decade, including Sears and Toys ‘R’ Us.

Before joining the Journal, Rizzo covered bankruptcy for Debtwire, and city and crime news at the New York Daily News. She has a bachelor’s degree from Baruch College and a master’s from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.