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Rodriguez returns to CNBC as deputy tech editor

Sal Rodriguez

CNBC.com managing editor Jeff McCracken sent out the following:

I would like to welcome Salvador Rodriguez back to the CNBC.com team. Salvador returns to serve as deputy editor of technology news in San Francisco, reporting to Senior Editor Ari Levy.

Salvador was born in Mexico, grew up in Texas and got his journalism degree at Arizona State University. He has been covering the tech industry as a journalist in California for the past 12 years, reporting at Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, CNBC.com and The Wall Street Journal.

Salvador has spent the past nearly three years with the Journal, where he covered the business of social media. In his previous tenure at CNBC.com, he covered Facebook and other social media companies. In his new role, he will help oversee coverage of some of the biggest companies in the world. He starts Sept. 9.

Salvador spends his free time watching sports (Go Astros!) and playing soccer, making playlists, eating burritos, watching movies and salsa dancing.

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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