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CNBC hires general assignment reporter from Forbes

Nik Deogun, the senior vice president and editor in chief of business news at CNBC, sent out the following staff hire announcement:

I am pleased to announce that Morgan Brennan will be joining CNBC as a general assignment reporter, effective Monday, December 9.
Morgan comes to us from Forbes Media where she was a staff writer and reporter. She reported stories for Forbes Magazine, ForbesLife Magazine and Forbes.com, most recently covering the real estate beat. She also worked as an anchor/reporter and producer for the Forbes Video Network. In addition, she was a regular guest discussing business and economic stories on a variety of networks.
Morgan graduated summa cum laude from New York University, where she majored in Social Science with a double concentration in Anthropology and Media Studies.
Please join me in welcoming Morgan to CNBC.

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.