Categories: OLD Media Moves

Cheddar TV hires chief operating officer

Eric Harris, a former BuzzFeed executive, has been hired by business news video operation Cheddar as its chief operating officer.

James Dennin of Mic writes, “Eric Harris joined BuzzFeed in 2008 as the company’s sixth employee, serving in the roles of general manager and chief business operations officer before leaving last year.

“In an email to employees, Cheddar CEO Jon Steinberg, also a BuzzFeed alumn, explained that Harris would be taking on a similar role, effective immediately — handling ‘HR, finance, vendors and capex project finance, project management, legal management, and business operations’ — at the video-streaming company.”

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Cheddar launched earlier this year, and it broadcasts from the New York Stock Exchange floor. Its target audience is millennials.

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.