Cheddar hires Nieves as an anchor

Alicia Nieves

Business news channel Cheddar has hired Alicia Nieves as an anchor.

Nieves, an Emmy Award-winning reporter who has reported for WPIX-TV in New York and KYW-TV in Philadelphia, among other local news stations, most recently served as a national news correspondent for the E.W. Scripps Co.

She will join senior anchor Kristen Scholer on “Closing Bell” and anchor Hena Doba on “Cheddar’s News Wrap.”

Nieves also worked as a Washington correspondent for KTXV/KUCW.

She holds an MBA from Rutgers and a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse 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.