CNN Business hires Lopez to be managing editor

Luciana Lopez

CNN Business has hired Luciana Lopez to be its managing editor.

She previously was at USA Today as deputy managing editor of politics and elections.

Lopez previously worked at MSNBC as a segment producer and at Reuters, where she was part of the 2016 campaign team. She was also a correspondent in Brazil.

Lopez also worked as a reporter for The Oregonian.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland.

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.