CNBC’s Delevingne hired by Reuters

Lawrence Delevingne, a CNBC.com staff writer, has been hired by Reuters to cover hedge funds.

He starts at Reuters on July 20.

Delevingne, who covered a “big money” beat for CNBC, had previously covered hedge funds for Absolute Return. At CNBC, he had focused on large money managers, especially hedge and private equity funds.

Before joining Absolute Return in April 2010, Delevingne was a staff writer at Business Insider. He has also written for Fortune and BusinessWeek.

Prior to journalism, Delevingne worked in communications, specializing in corporate responsibility at Burson Marsteller. He holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

At Georgetown, he studied international affairs, focusing on Africa.

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.