CNBC hires Snyder as leadership editor for Make It

Benjamin Snyder

CNBC has hired Benjamin Snyder as leadership editor for its Make It website, which focuses on all things money and success for the next generation of leaders, zeroing in on the core topics of entrepreneurs, leadership, careers and money.

“In my role, I’ll pay special attention to stories on diversity in the workplace as well as sports business, subjects I’m passionate about covering,” said Snyder in a post on LinkedIn.

Snyder spent the last nine months as an assistant managing editor of Odyssey, where he launched a breaking news team to cover trending subjects across the U.S. with over 35 reporters.

Before that, Snyder worked at Fortune.com as an associate editor and a reporter.

He has a bachelor’s degree from Goucher College and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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.