CNBC’s digital adds creative director, writer departs

Caroline Moss

CNBC‘s digital news operation has hired Caroline Moss from Business Insider to be its creative director.

Moss was previously a deputy editor at Business Insider. At CNBC, she joins executive editor Jay Yarow, who also joined the business news website from Business Insider.

Moss will work on a variety of special projects with a focus on video and help managing editor Jenna Goudreau — who was also hired from Business Insider — think up new shows and ideas that fit within the “Make It” umbrella.

She previously wrote for The Daily Dot and has had bylines in Cosmopolitan and The New York Times. She also writes a humor series for The Toast called “Hey Ladies.” Moss graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in journalism.

In addition, writer Heesun Wee has left CNBC.com to pursue opportunities on the West Coast.

Wee was a features reporter and editor for CNBC.com, where she covered topics that span manufacturing, agriculture, emerging markets and the North Korean economy.

Wee has a specialty in long-form, cross-platform storytelling. She earned a N.Y. State Society of CPAs Excellence in Financial Journalism award for “China is changing your dinner plate” that showed how China’s rising middle class is transforming U.S. agriculture and water.

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.