CNN hires Siegel as a business reporter

Rachel Siegel

CNN has hired Rachel Siegel as a reporter for CNN Business.

Siegel will cover economic policy and how it’s shaping American life, breaking news on big developments and deciphering policy decisions.

Siegel joins CNN after nearly nine years at The Washington Post. Most recently, she covered the U.S. housing market, delving into the ways housing offers a lens into peoples’ experience of the economy. Siegel also covered the Federal Reserve as its leaders tried to wrestle inflation under control, even against the threat of a recession.

Since the pandemic, she was a lead reporter for the economics team and helped readers understand how campaign platforms and Washington policymaking can show up in daily life.

Previously, Siegel was a breaking news writer covering business and financial news. She also reported on the Montgomery County Council in suburban Maryland. Before joining the Post in June 2017, Siegel contributed to The Marshall Project and The Dallas Morning News.

She graduated from Yale University, where she served on the college newspaper and studied American history.

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.