CNBC hires Shead as a tech correspondent in London

Sam Shead

CNBC has hired tech correspondent Sam Shead in London.

He starts on Monday and will be focused on European technology news.

Shead has been writing for the BBC News technology desk and Sifted, which is a new startup publication backed by The Financial Times.

He previously worked for Business Insider as a Berlin correspondent and as a senior technology reporter in London.

He has had other articles published by The Financial Times, Wired, Forbes and The Guardian, and he’s given interviews to the BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Channel 5, Reuters TV, and Russia Today.

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.