CNBC hires Holland as a GA reporter

Frank Holland

Nik Deogun, senior vice president and editor in chief at CNBC, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

I am excited to announce Frank Holland is joining CNBC as a general assignment reporter, effective September 24. He will be based at CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Frank is an award-winning anchor and reporter with more than 15 years of experience in major news markets. He comes to CNBC from NBC 10 Boston and NECN. Previously, he was at WCVB in Boston where he spent two years covering breaking news, national stories and enterprising original series, including “Black in Boston.” Prior to Boston, Frank spent three years as an anchor/reporter at WGN-TV in Chicago, where he covered the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, the Republican and Democratic national conventions, as well as the National College Football Championship. He also held positions at NBC Affiliate WDIV in Detroit, News 12 in New York, and spent several years in television news in both the Virgin Islands and Alaska.
Frank holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree in business administration at Bentley University.
Please join me in welcoming Frank 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.