McLean among the CNN layoffs

Rob McLea

Rob McLean

Rob McLean, an editor for CNN Business, was among the layoffs this week.

He edits articles, reports breaking news and helps manage the CNN Business homepages overnight.

Before joining CNN, McLean worked as a digital managing editor for Hearst Television from 2012-2015, editing articles produced by local stations. From 2010-2012, he served as a local editor for Patch.com, managing a news site in suburban St. Louis.

McLean moved to New York from Omaha, Nebraska. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Creighton University, majoring in English, and a master’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he studied journalism.

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.