CNBC.com hires new tech reporter

Sara Salinas

Sara Salinas has joined CNBC Digital to cover tech news.

Her first day is Wednesday.

Salinas interned this past summer on the Boston Globe metro desk. Before that, she interned for the Indianapolis Star as a Pulliam Fellow and for the Baltimore Business Journal.

She graduated in May from UNC-Chapel Hill as a journalism major. During her senior year, she was projects and investigations director for The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper.

Salinas, a Maryland native, was also a contributing writer to USA Today College.

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.