CNBC hires reporter in San Francisco

Aditi Roy

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

I am pleased to announce that Aditi Roy is joining CNBC as a general assignment reporter based in San Francisco, effective July 18^th.
Aditi comes to us from ABC News where she was a West Coast correspondent reporting for all of the network’s broadcasts and platforms. There, she covered a wide range of stories from consumer-facing products and a Delphi self-driving car to the 2013 Target breach and severe weather across the West. Prior to joining ABC News, Aditi worked at NBC10 in Philadelphia where she anchored morning and evening newscasts. She began her career in journalism as a reporter and photographer at KLKN-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska and later worked as a reporter for KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington.
Aditi holds a B.A. in political science from UC Berkeley as well as an M.A. in political science from Stanford University and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. In 2012, Aditi received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Please join me in welcoming Aditi 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.