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CNBC.com names Thomas as retail reporter

Lauren Thomas

Lauren Thomas has been named retail reporter for CNBC.com after previously serving as a news associate.

Thomas will focus on building CNBC.com’s coverage of department stores such as Macy’s and J.C. Penney, plus specialty retailers such as Lululemon in her new position.

She joined CNBC in January 2017 as a news associate focused on breaking news coverage, but quickly shifted gears to retail and consumer coverage.

Thomas graduated with highest honors from the UNC-Chapel Hill in December 2016, where she studied business journalism and Spanish.

While in school, Thomas was one of the founding journalists of the North Carolina Business News Wire.

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.

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