Categories: OLD Media Moves

CNBC names new markets reporter

Nik Deogun, senior vice president and editor in chief at CNBC, sent out the following staff announcement on Thursday:

I am pleased to announce that Josh Lipton is joining CNBC as a markets reporter, effective Monday, January 28.

An accomplished journalist, Josh will work closely with CNBC’s ace team of reporters and producers who mine the markets every day for real-time news and analysis.  In addition to appearing on CNBC-TV, Josh will frequently contribute to CNBC.com.

Previously, Josh was the markets editor for Bloomberg Television where he was responsible for all markets coverage, working with Bloomberg’s team to develop reports on stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities.

Prior to joining Bloomberg in June 2011, Josh was a staff writer at Minyanville, where he covered the capital markets. Before that, he served as a staff writer at Forbes, where he reported on finance and investing and contributed stock recommendations and investigative feature stories to Forbes magazine.

Josh holds a bachelor’s of arts degree from Colgate University and a master’s degree from both the London School of Economics and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Please join me in welcoming Josh to the team.

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.

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