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Fox Business Network hires new reporter

Fox Business Network has hired Jo Ling Kent from NBC’s owned and operated station WVIT (Hartford), announced Kevin Magee, head of the network.

“Jo is an extremely accomplished reporter,” said Magee in a statement. “Her experience overseas will help our audience understand international markets and economies.”
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“Starting May 1, Kent will serve as a business reporter covering breaking financial news and international market moves. She will be based out of Fox Business Network’s headquarters in New York.

While at WVIT, Kent covered local businesses as a general assignment and investigative reporter. Prior to that, she was a campaign embed reporter for NBC News, covering the 2012 presidential race.

Before joining NBC, she covered the Chinese economy, human rights, Taiwan trade and environmental issues as an associate producer in CNN’s Beijing bureau.

She got her start in television working as a web reporter for ABC News where she covered the Beijing Olympics, 2008 Taiwan elections, unrest in Tibet and the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

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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.