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Fox Business director of business news is let go

Ray Hennessey, the director of business news at Fox Business Network, has lost his job, according to a report by Chris Ariens at TVNewser.com.

Ariens writes, “An FBN spokesperson wouldn’t go into detail about the dismissal, only telling us this: ‘Ray Hennessey is no longer with the company.’

“Insiders add that Hennessey, a top executive at FBN, has a reputation for making inappropriate comments. Hennessey joined the network at launch in October 2007 and previously worked at SmartMoney.com and at Dow Jones.”

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Hennessey is a former board member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

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.