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Why McShane left Fox Business

Connell McShane

Natalie Korach of The Wrap interviewed Connell McShane about his departure from Fox Business Network and his new job at News Nation.

Here is an excerpt:

Can you speak to how you ended up at NewsNation? 
My contract expired in May at Fox Business and I had been thinking about moving on for some time because I didn’t feel like I could credibly do the job as a straight news reporter in that environment anymore. When I started to think about leaving, I then had to get onto the next part of that conversation, which is what would you like to do next? Aligning the values that I have as a journalist with the platform or network that I might end up working for was really important to me.

With NewsNation — we started a conversation earlier this year. [They] came to me and said “Hey, listen, we want to put on a product that is unbiased and fact-based,” and that’s what I’ve always done, and that’s what I believe in. The fit just became the right fit.

That’s pretty much organically how it developed. I didn’t see a place to credibly do what I was doing at Fox anymore, I wanted to do something different, and NewsNation seemed like the perfect fit to do what I’ve always done.

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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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