CNBC reporter Rooney’s beat changes to AI

Kate Rooney

CNBC reporter Kate Rooney‘s beat is changing as she moves away from covering fintech and cryptocurrency and focuses more on artificial intelligence and OpenAI.

She has been covering crypto and bitcoin since 2018.

Rooney previously was at “Squawk Box,” where she served as a segment producer. Prior to “Squawk Box,” she was a news associate, completing rotations with “Worldwide Exchange,” “Squawk on the Street” and “Squawk Alley.”

She graduated from Boston College in 2013 and received her master’s degree at Northwestern 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.