CNBC’s Lovelace to join NBC News

Berkeley Lovelace

CNBC.com reporter Berkeley Lovelace is leaving the news organization to cover health and medical news for NBC News.

He has been mainly covering pharmaceuticals and the Food and Drug Administration. He’s also the host of “Healthy Returns,” a weekly health-care newsletter.

His last day at CNBC is Friday. He will start his new job later this month.

Lovelace started at CNBC in May 2016 as a fellow before becoming a news associate. Prior to CNBC, he worked with the MU School of Journalism and The Associated Press in New York on developing new ways to tell stories using 360 video and virtual reality.

He holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Missouri.

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.