Fox Business hires Lawrence as general assignment reporter

Edward Lawrence

Fox Business Network has hired journalist Edward Lawrence to be a general assignment reporter.

Starting this week, Lawrence will be based out of its Washington bureau covering economic and political breaking news.

An Emmy-winning journalist, Lawrence most recently served as a freelance correspondent where he regularly covered breaking news stories for national outlets such as CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC, and Global News Canada.

Prior to his freelance career, he worked as a reporter for multiple stations across the country, including WFTS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Tampa, Florida, as well as KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV, the CBS stations in Los Angeles. He got his start at WCFT-TV in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Lawrence has received multiple accolades for his in-depth and breaking news reporting, including an Emmy award in 2015, as well as Associated Press awards for his news coverage in 2015, 2001, 1999 and 1996.

A graduate of University of Maryland, Lawrence is the author of the 2014 book: “Facing The Camera: A Guide to Being Interviewed.”

He is currently pursuing a master’s in finance from Harvard University.

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.