CNBC hires WSJ’s Evans

CNBC senior vice president Nik Deogun sent out the following staff announcement on Wednesday afternoon:

I am pleased to announce that Kelly Evans will join CNBC’s on-air team, effective February 27. Her initial assignment will be in London.
Kelly has been a reporter and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, penning the influential “Ahead of the Tape” column. She also hosts the daily “News Hub” program on WSJ.com and has been a frequent guest on several television networks, including CNBC. Kelly joined the Journal in 2007 covering real estate and economics.
Kelly graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where she was a George Washington Honor Scholar, and four-time scholar-athlete.
Please join me in welcoming Kelly to CNBC.

One plan, Talking Biz News is told, is to have Evans host “Worldwide Exchange” from London.

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.