CNBC.com hires HuffPost’s Wilkie to cover White House

Christina Wilkie

Christina Wilkie has been hired by CNBC Digital to cover the White House.

Wilkie was previously a White House reporter at HuffPost in Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining HuffPost in June 2011, Wilkie wrote the “In the Know” column for The Hill from June 2009 to June 2011. She was also managing editor at Washington Life magazine.

She is a graduate of Trinity College and held staff positions at The Brookings Institution and The Aspen Institute before pursuing journalism.

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.