CNBC.com names Calia its politics editor

Michael Calia

CNBC.com managing editor Jeff McCracken sent out the following announcement on Friday:

I am pleased to announce Mike Calia has been named Politics Editor for CNBC.com.
Mike joined CNBC nearly a year ago as a hot seat editor for the breaking news desk often handling late breaking news.
Prior to CNBC, he spent more than eight years at Dow Jones where he worked as a reporter and editor at Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. He had his start in the business working on the copy desks of The Press of Atlantic City and The Record.
Mike received his bachelor’s degree in English with a concentration in Journalism from New Jersey City University. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Katie, son, Benji, dog, Oscar – and another Calia on the way.
Please join me in congratulating Mike on his new role.
Jeff

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.