CNBC.com tech reporter Balakrishnan leaves for Law Times

Anita Balakrishnan

CNBC.com tech reporter Anita Balakrishnan has left the news organization and is moving to Toronto.

Balakrishnan will be taking a role at Thomson Reuters in Toronto, where she will be a staff writer on the Law Times publication, covering the legal industry.

Her last day at CNBC was Wednesday and her first day at Law Times is Monday.

In a note to her CNBC colleagues, Balakrishnan wrote, “I feel I’ve grown immensely in both a personal and professional capacity during my time here. For fear of sounding cliche, there will always be a special place in my mind and heart for my first reporting job here.”

Before joining CNBC, Balakrishnan was a Dow Jones News Fund intern at USA Today Money. She is a graduate of the New York University journalism program’s business and economic reporting program.

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.