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CNBC hires Mercado to cover personal finance

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Darla Mercado

Business journalist Darla Mercado has been hired by CNBC to cover personal finance.

She starts July 5.

For the past year, Mercado has been working at the Pension Resource Institute, an ERISA compliance consulting firm that works with registered investment advisory firms and broker-dealers.

Before that, she was a reporter for Investment News, where she covered retirement issues for nine years. She started at Investment News as an intern in 2006.

Prior to working at Investment News, she was an intern at Supermarket News and the Bronx Times. Mercado, a Bronx native, obtained her bachelor’s in English at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and her master’s in journalism at New York University. She is currently studying for her CFP.

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.

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