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ABC News names senior business editor

Zunaira Zaki has been named senior business editor and producer of specialized units at ABC News

She will report to Eric Avram, who is senior executive producer of division-wide interviews and oversees the medical, business and law and justice teams.

A 10-year veteran of ABC News, Zaki has played a leading role in virtually all of its business coverage.

She has also has covered major breaking news stories from Newtown, and the Boston Marathon bombing, the 2005 London bombings, the Gulf Oil Spill, the Michael Jackson investigation, Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, Hurricane Sandy and the George Zimmerman trial.

She traveled to Pakistan for Diane Sawyer’s Malala special and for ABC News’ Murrow Award-winning coverage of Osama bin Laden’s death.

Zaki is a Boston University 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.

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