Categories: OLD Media Moves

Fox Business Network names reporters

Jeff Flock, Shibani Joshi and Connell McShane have been hired as reporters for the Fox Business Network, according to a press release issued Wednesday.Â

Flock, who will be based in Chicago, spent 24 years at CNN in various capacities, most recently as Chicago bureau chief and correspondent where he managed coverage of the Midwestern region and covered some of the nation’s top business news stories. While at CNN, Flock received multiple awards including two Cable ACE Awards, a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. Most recently, he was the managing editor and anchor of Hurricane Now, LLC, a Web site specializing in U.S. hurricane coverage.

Joshi, based in New York, joins from her role as a reporter covering breaking news for News 12 Westchester. Before this, Joshi was a producer for Reuters Television and TIMES NOW, the joint venture news channel with The Times of India, where she was responsible for producing news packages and interviews broadcast all over India. Joshi has also served as a contributing writer for ABCNews.com andABC News Now” covering business and technology stories. She began her journalism career as a news production assistant at CNNfn where she contributed toLou Dobbs Moneyline” and CNNMoney Morning.”

McShane, also based in New York, joins from Bloomberg Television where he served as an anchor and reporter withEvening Edition,”On the Markets” andMarketweek.” He also reported live from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

Previously, McShane was with Bloomberg Radio where he co-anchoredThe First Word” and covered top business, economic and political news, including conducting interviews with political figures such as Senator Hillary Clinton, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Gov. George Pataki.

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.

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