Producer Higgins-Dunn departing CNBC

Noah Higgins-Dunn

Noah Higgins-Dunn, an associate producer on CNBC’s digital video team, is leaving at the end of the week for a new opportunity.

He has been with the company during this stint since September 2021 and had covered pharmaceuticals and health care for CNBC.com. He previously spent most of 2021 at FiercePharma.

Higgins-Dunn was a digital associate for CNBC.com covering the coronavirus. As a health and science reporter, he has covered breaking national news from the Trump administration and pharmaceutical companies racing to develop and produce COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines.

Higgins-Dunn graduated magna cum laude from the University of Missouri in 2019, earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism with an emphasis in business and economics reporting and a minor in business.

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.