Categories: OLD Media Moves

CNBC’s “Squawk Box” is getting a new executive producer

CNBC has named Max Meyers executive producer of “Squawk Box,” effective Oct. 23, reports A.J. Katz of TVNewser.com.

Katz writes, “Meyers had been executive producer of Fast Money for the past three years, and will now oversee the network’s signature program.

“Longtime Squawk Box senior ep Matthew Quayle is taking on a new role at the network: Senior executive producer of program development for business news.

“Quayle helmed Squawk Box for 13 years. He also helped launch the program, which celebrates 23 years on air later this month.

“Halftime Report ep Jason Gewirtz becomes interim ep of Fast Money until a permanent replacement is named.”

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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.