BuzzFeed retail reporter Miranda joining NBC News

Leticia Miranda

Leticia Miranda, the retail reporter at BuzzFeed News, is leaving to join NBC News to cover business.

She will start in October.

Miranda has been at BuzzFeed for four years and previously was a breaking news reporter and consumer affairs reporter. She also was a fellow at ProPublica and interned at WNYC Radio.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California-Santa Cruz and a master’s degree from New York University.

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.