Brewer named general assignment reporter at CNBC

Contessa Brewer

Contessa Brewer has been named as a general assignment reporter for CNBC, the business news network announced Tuesday.

Brewer joined the network as a contributor in September 2016, heavily concentrated on the 2016 election and has done a variety of reporting including stories on the increase in lobster demand, the U.S. dairy war with Canada, and coal country’s reaction to the Trump administration.

Brewer working as a host for the MSNBC weekend program called “Caught on Camera.” She has also worked as a correspondent for NBC News and as an anchor for the NBC’s flagship station WNBC.

After graduating from Syracuse University, Brewer worked at KMIR-TV in Palm Springs, California from 1997 to 1999 and KRNV-TV in Reno, Nevada as a news photographer. Afterwards, she filled in the post of weekend anchor and general assignment reporter at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee.

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.