Senior editor Kopecki departs CNBC

Dawn Kopecki

Dawn Kopecki, a senior editor overseeing politics, health, science and investigations at CNBC, has left for a new opportunity.

Her last day was Friday.

Before joining CNBC, she was business editor at the San Antonio Express-News.

Previously, she was a senior writer at Bloomberg News for more than seven years. While there she broke numerous stories on the mortgage market and political fallout during the financial crisis, including coverage of TARP and executive compensation restrictions in Dodd-Frank. Before Bloomberg, Kopecki was a correspondent at BusinessWeek and a reporter at Dow Jones.

She received her bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Pennsylvania State University.

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.