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CNBC reporter Little leaving for MBA school

Katie Little

Katie Little, a reporter for CNBC.com, is leaving the web operation of the business news network to attend business school.

Her last day is Friday, June 23.

She will start the MBA program at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University this fall.

Little has been with CNBC since August 2011, first as a news associate and then as a staff writer. She has covered everything from the death of former Fox News head Roger Ailes to how grocery and retail company stocks are being affected by Amazon’s deal for Whole Foods.

She also spent a couple years covering business of food, writing about everything from McDonald’s turnaround to Chipotle’s e.Coli crisis/woes.

Little is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate who worked for The Daily Tar Heel while in college.

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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