Former CNBCer Kemp launching BusiNext

Ted Kemp

Ted Kemp, a former CNBC staffer in the U.S. and Singapore, has become chief editorial officer of BusiNext, a Middle East business news service based in Dubai launching later this year.

Kemp spent the previous six years as managing editor of digital for CNBC in Singapore, overseeing reporters in Singapore, London, Beijing, Guangzhou and Dubai.

Before that, he was senior editor for markets and international news, based in CNBC’s Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, headquarters. He was also London bureau chief and a news editor in the CNBC.com launch team in 2006.

Kemp holds a bachelor’s degree from N.C. State University and a master’s degree from the University of Illinois.

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.