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Haburchak joins Semafor as director of live video

Alan Haburchak

Alan Haburchak has joined Semafor as director of live video.

He most recently was on The Wall Street Journal’s podcasts team as an editorial director of audio. Previously, Haburchak was a senior producer at Insider, where he helped lead a team of producers who created and published the daily tech/biz news-focused show The Refresh.

He was a senior producer at The Economist, where he collaborated with business and finance journalists on Money Talks, a weekly podcast from The Economist covering markets, the economy, and the world of business.

He also worked at Morning Brew, BuzzFeed, Mic, The New York Times and Mashable.

Haburchak has a B.A. from the University of Colorado Boulder and a M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is a professor of the audio podcast fellows program at Stony Brook University.

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.

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