Barron’s hires CNBC’s Kim as a reporter

Tae Kim, an investing reporter for CNBC.com, has been hired by Barron’s as a tech reporter.

He starts his new job this week.

“I want to sincerely thank @johnmelloy for being such an awesome editor and teacher. If I improved at all as a journalist or writer, it was due to John,” wrote Kim on Twitter.

Kim covered equities and financial markets for CNBC Pro, CNBC’s premium digital-content platform.

Prior to this role he was an editor at Yahoo Finance, worked as an equity analyst at hedge funds and as an investment analyst at a fund of funds. He began his career as a management consultant.

Kim graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in history.

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.