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CNBC’s Faber to host “Jeopardy” in August

David Faber

Longtime CNBC anchor David Faber will guest host “Jeopardy” in August.

His dates are Aug. 2 to Aug. 6.

Faber is a former Celebrity Jeopardy champion who serves as the co-anchor of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” Faber also anchors and co-produces acclaimed original documentaries and long-form programming for CNBC. This work has earned him Loeb, Emmy, Peabody, and duPont awards.

In his more than two decades with CNBC, Faber has broken many big financial stories, including Disney’s deal to buy most of Twenty-First Century Fox’s assets, the massive fraud at WorldCom and Rupert Murdoch’s unsolicited bid for Dow Jones.

His book, “The Faber Report,” was published in spring 2002; his second book, “And Then the Roof Caved In,” was published in the summer of 2009.

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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