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Al Jazeera hires biz journalist Meehan

Al Jazeera America has hired former Thomson Reuters producer John Meehan to serve as senior executive producer of the forthcoming channel’s financial and business coverage, reports Dylan Byers of Politico.

Byers writes, “Meehan will also serve as senior executive producer for the new business show hosted by former CNN chief business correspondent Ali Velshi.

“‘This is a really exciting opportunity to reinvent the notion of what business news coverage in America can be,’ Meehan said in a statement. ‘Al Jazeera America’s business and financial coverage will be about the continuing economic challenges facing the American family today, rather than just the daily ups and downs of Wall Street and official statistics.’

“Meehan formerly served as the global executive producer at Thomson Reuters; over the years, he has been managing editor of Bloomberg Television, senior news editor at CNBC, and Paris correspondent for The Associated Press.

“Al Jazeera America is scheduled to launch later this year, but has yet to announce its leadership.”

Read more here. Meehan also worked at BusinessWeek magazine.

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.