CNBC’s Salinas on swimming in business news stories

Sara Salinas

UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor Andy Bechtel spoke with CNBC.com deputy business editor Sara Salinas about her job.

Here is an excerpt:

Q. Describe your job at CNBC. What is your typical day like?
A. As deputy editor for our site’s Business and Company News team, I spend all day swimming in stories about transportation, media, entertainment, retail and restaurants. I work with a team of 11 beat reporters, strategizing around what we should cover, when we should cover it and how.
My typical day starts before the stock markets open, reading in on news and editing and publishing some quick hit pieces to jump start the day for the team. By mid-morning, I’ll have caught up with reporters to hear about what’s on their plates for the day or beyond, plan broader coverage for ongoing storylines, and schedule out the always-frenzied earnings report season.
Even the best-scheduled days can get derailed by a breaking news story, but I chip away at edits on longer feature stories as I’m able and wrap up my day sometime after the markets close when it feels like we’re safely beyond the 4 p.m. hour news dump.

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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.