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Eight laid off from CNBC.com

Linette Lopez and Julia LaRoche of Business Insider report that eight staffers have been laid off from CNBC.com.

Lopez and LaRoche write, “Brian Steel, a spokesman for CNBC, confirmed that there had been personnel changes at the company.

“‘The total bloodbath was unexpected,’ said one source close to the situation. ‘They pushed out a lot of loyal, very qualified people.’

“In other words, CNBC employees are just finding out about this as it happens. Those who were laid off were called into HR one by one.

“‘It was like watching people get executed,’ the source said.

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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.