CBS Moneywatch hires Brooks from Newsday

CBS Moneywatch has hired Khristopher Brooks, a reporter at Newsday.

Brooks, who had been covering town government for Newsday, will cover economic disparities for the personal finance website.

“It’s a new beat, and I’m eager about the challenge of developing this thing from scratch,” wrote Brooks in a Twitter post.

Brooks previously covered innovation and entrepreneurship for the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York. He has also worked for the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, the Omaha World-Herald and the Bristol Herald-Courier in Virginia.

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.