Senior biz reporter Popken departs NBC News

Ben Popken

Ben Popken, a senior business reporter for NBC News, has left the news organization.

He had been with NBC since September 2012.

“The Business and Tech unit is pivoting in new directions and I wish all the inspiring and hardworking writers, on-air reporters and producers in it the best,” he wrote on Twitter.

Popken appeared on MSNBC, wrote digital features and articles, and pitched and produced Nightly News, Today segments and digital documentaries.

He previously was managing editor of Consumerist.com/

Popken is a University of Colorado graduate.

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.