CNNMoney names director of global strategy

Ed O’Keefe, vice president of CNNMoney and CNNPolitics Digital, sent out the following announcement on Friday:

It is perhaps the worst kept secret at CNN but I’m pleased to officially announce that Alex Nelson begins a new role as Director, CNNMoney Global Strategy in May.
Alex has been a bedrock of CNN’s financial coverage – first with CNNfn and subsequently CNNMoney — for 14 years.
He deftly managed our transition to a unified video team, and has been a trusted aide-de-camp to and with Jason Farkas.
Alex does it all: managing our day-to-day video, building the War Room, the set which is now in use for CNN writ-large, and turning our conference table into a fully-fuctional 6-switched live control room.
He will take those skills to London, working closely with Mark Thompson and Linnie Rawlinson, to focus on five key priorities:

incremental CNNMoney global revenue
successful cooperation between CNNi Style and the CNNMoney Luxury vertical
assist the development and potential launch of CNNMoney Mandarin
building the CNN War Room London
CNNMoney + CNNi TV integration

The timeline is tight: Alex and his wife hop over the Atlantic at a precise date TBD before the first week in May.

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.