CNBC hires Lucas to cover restaurants, food, consumer products

Amelia Lucas

Amelia Lucas has been hired as a staff reporter at CNBC.com to cover restaurants, food and consumer products.

Lucas had been a news associate with CNBC for two years covering everything from Starbucks and McDonald’s to the growth of something that professes to taste like meat.

She grew up in northern Virginia and attended the College of William & Mary, where she double majored in English and finance.

After graduation, she joined CNBC’s six-month fellowship program and then the consumer team.

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.