Ex-Fox Business journalist Eckhart launches weekly podcast

Jen Eckhart

Former Fox Business Network journalist Jennifer Eckhart is launching “Reinvented,” a weekly podcast series in which she interviews people who have overcome serious obstacles on their path to success, reports Todd Spangler of Variety.

Spangler reports, “‘Reinvented With Jen Eckhart’ is set to debut Aug. 23, with Grammy-winning artist Sean Paul as her first guest. Upcoming episodes will feature interviews with supermodel-entrepreneur Kathy Ireland, author and rapper Zuby, author and addiction-recovery advocate Brian Cuban, TV host Melissa Rivers — and Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor who famously sued Fox News chairman Roger Ailes for sexual harassment.

“Eckhart is producing and distributing the show independently. ‘My leaving Fox has given me a unique opportunity to transition to do something unique and interesting — the ‘Reinvention’ podcast,’ she told Variety.

“Eckhart left Fox in June 2020, most recently serving as an associate producer at Fox Business Network and appearing on Fox News and Fox Nation over seven years.”

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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.