CNBC hires two data journalists

CNBC’s online operation has hired two reporters.

Nicholas Wells is a multimedia and urban reporter for Crain’s New York Business based in Brooklyn who has been hired by CNBC to be a data journalist.

“I’m tremendously excited to join the team at CNBC,” said Wells in an email to Talking Biz News. “It’s a great platform and I look forward to helping enhance their offerings with data-driven stories across a variety of topics.”

Prior to joining Crain’s, he was a freelance journalist for publications including City Limits, The New York Times, The New York Daily News and The New York Press. Wells is a graduate of Hampshire College and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

Mark T. Fahey, of CNN Money, has also joined CNBC as a data journalist/graphics editor.

Fahey previously worked at The Wall Street Journal and interned at Crain’s New York last summer. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

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.