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CNBC’s Smith departing after five years

Elliot Smith

CNBC correspondent Elliot Smith is leaving the network after five years.

His last day will be Thursday.

Smith is a correspondent for CNBC International in London, covering the intersection of economics and politics in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to joining CNBC as a markets reporter in April 2019, he spent two and a half years with Citywire, where his reporting on the British Steel pensions scandal garnered the 2018 PressGazette British Journalism Award for Specialist Media (Finance).

He graduated from the University of Warwick with a BA in philosophy and obtained the NCTJ Multimedia Journalism Diploma from News Associates in Manchester, before starting his journalism career at the Evening Telegraph in Dundee, Scotland.

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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