Categories: OLD Media Moves

CNBC hires Goudreau from Business Insider to be web ME

Jay Yarow, senior vice president and executive editor of CNBC Digital, sent out the following staff hire announcement on Wednesday afternoon:

I am thrilled to announce Jenna Goudreau will be joining CNBC from Business Insider effective May 17.
Reporting directly to me, Jenna will be a Managing Editor overseeing strategy and execution of CNBC Make It, the network’s new site focused on all things money. She’ll be working across the organization with our Business Day and Primetime teams to maximize the full resources of CNBC.
Jenna spent the past three years at Business Insider overseeing personal finance, career, strategy, and lists. She and her team consistently produced some of the smartest, most widely-read stories on the site.
Prior to Business Insider, she was at Forbes where she was an award-winning reporter covering business, leadership, and lifestyle.
Please join me in welcoming Jenna 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.