CNBC’s Tirrell departs for CNN

Meg Tirrell has been hired by CNN as a medical correspondent to report on health and wellness stories for all CNN platforms.

Previously, Tirrell was CNBC’s senior health and science reporter, where she covered the development of new medicines for Alzheimer’s, cancer, and rare diseases, and tracked public health emergencies from Ebola and Zika to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her reporting has also chronicled the massive set of trials seeking to hold the drug industry accountable for the opioid epidemic, market failures that have led to life-threatening drug shortages, and the ongoing fight over the cost of medicines.

Prior to CNBC, Tirrell covered the biotechnology industry for Bloomberg News, where she also contributed to Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Tirrell holds a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and bachelor’s degree in English and music from Wellesley College.

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.