CNN chief biz correspondent Romans departing after 24 years

Christine Romans

CNN chief business correspondent Christine Romans is leaving the channel after 24 years, reports Alex Weprin of The Hollywood Reporter.

Weprin reports, “Romans — a staple of CNN’s business coverage for CNN since 1999 and on the morning show for the past decade — is believed to have made the decision to leave recently. She is not expected to be jumping to another TV news competitor.

“A veteran business journalist, Romans joined CNN from Reuters, and spent the first few years at the channel reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. At CNN she garnered a reputation for breaking down economic news (like jobs reports or inflation numbers) in a way that casual viewers could understand, and for interviewing CEOs like Disney’s Bob Iger, JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

“She is also the author of three books: Smart Is the New Rich: If You Can’t Afford it—Put It Down, How to Speak Money, and Smart Is the New Rich Money Guide for Millennials.”

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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.