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The Messenger hires O’Brian to be breaking biz news editor

Bridget O’Brian

News startup The Messenger has hired Bridget O’Brian from CNN Business to be breaking news editor its business news desk.

O’Brian has been a section editor at CNN Business, where she was responsible for stories about the economy and the markets.

O’Brian joined CNN after more than a decade as editor at large at Columbia University’s Office of Communications, editing the university’s news pages. She was also an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School.

She previously worked at The Wall Street Journal, where she was stationed in CNBC’s newsroom as a broadcast news editor responsible for coordinating content-sharing between the two media outlets. She also spent more than a dozen years as a reporter at the paper covering Wall Street, mutual funds as well as the travel and airline industries. O’Brian started her career as a reporter for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

A New York native and second-generation journalist, O’Brian holds a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School.

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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