Semafor hires CNBC’s Goswami as biz reporter

Rohan Goswami

Semafor has hired CNBC reporter Rohan Goswami as a business reporter, starting in January.

Goswami has been covering deal making and shareholder activism in all sectors. He has broken news on a number of boardroom and activist-related matters, including the probe that ultimately led to the ouster of Norfolk Southern’s CEO, the ongoing struggles at Intel, the leadership tumult at Starbucks and across a series of activist fights.

He has previously reported on corporate fraud, including the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the criminal and civil actions against crypto exchange Binance, venture-backed companies and their executives, and cybersecurity. He joined CNBC in 2022.

Goswami graduated from Tulane University with a degree in history, where he was a reporter and editor at the school’s newspaper.

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.