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CNBC tech reporter Lipton is leaving

Josh Lipton

CNBC technology correspondent Josh Lipton is leaving the network.

His last day is Monday.

Lipton has been reporting extensively on technology companies and spearheads the network’s coverage of Apple, including news making interviews with its CEO, Tim Cook. He also covers semiconductors, cloud computing and the video game industry for the company.

Lipton joined CNBC as an on-air markets reporter in 2013, based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. He went on to become one of the original technology reporters to broadcast from the network’s San Francisco bureau, CNBC@1Market, when it opened in April 2015.

Previously, Lipton was the markets editor for Bloomberg Television where he was responsible for all markets coverage, working with Bloomberg’s team to develop reports on stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities. He also appeared weekdays on “In the Loop with Betty Liu.”

Prior to joining Bloomberg in June 2011, Lipton was a staff writer at Minyanville, an online financial news source, where he covered the capital markets. He also served as a staff writer for Forbes, where he reported on finance and investing and contributed stock recommendations and investigative feature stories.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University and a master’s from both The London School of Economics and 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.

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