Business Insider hires Ungarino to cover markets

Rebecca Ungarino

Rebecca Ungarino of CNBC has been hired by Business Insider to cover the markets.

Ungarino is an associate producer at CNBC, producing daily on-air and digital segments about the financial markets for “Trading Nation” and “Futures Now.”

She also frequently contributes market coverage to CNBC.com.

“I’m so grateful for my time at this incredible network and for my supportive colleagues,” she wrote on Twitter.

Shortly before joining CNBC in 2016, Ungarino graduated from Baruch College, where she was the editor in chief of Dollars & Sense, the journalism department’s award-winning online magazine. The team at Dollars & Sense was awarded the Best in Business award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in student reporting for a series of stories on the burgeoning private sector in Cuba.

She majored in business journalism with a minor in law and policy.

In the spring of 2015, Ungarino won a New York Financial Writers’ Association scholarship, awarded to 10 students in the tristate area.

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.