Categories: OLD Media Moves

CNNMoney hires markets and investing reporter

Melvin Backman has been hired to cover markets and investing for CNNMoney.com, according to a post on his Facebook page.

Backman writes:

I’m trying to write about business, finance and economic for people who aren’t usually into that sort of stuff, so any suggestions or ideas about things to write about would be awesome.

Backman has been at Debtwire, where he covered mid-market bankruptcies — companies with less than $150 million in funded debt. He also wrote about the Business Development Company industry.

Backman, who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013, had interned with Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. While a student, he won a SABEW Best in Business award in the student category.

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.