Categories: OLD Media Moves

CNBC anchor Francis joining Fox Business Network

Chris Ariens of TVNewser.com reports that CNBC anchor Melissa Francis is leaving the network for a job at Fox Business Network.

Ariens writes, “Francis was a co-anchor of daytime programs ‘Power Lunch’ and, before that, ‘The Call.’ The Harvard grad has been on TV since she was one year old, staring in a Johnson & Johnson commercial. She would later play the role of Cassandra Cooper Ingalls on ‘Little House on the Prairie.’

“CNBC spokesman Brian Steel confirms the departure telling TVNewser, ‘We thank Melissa for her years of hard work and wish her well.'”

Read more here. Fox Business has hired other CNBC talent in its four years, including anchor Liz Claman and reporters Dennis Kneale and Charles Gasparino.

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.