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Glick promoted to VP of biz news at Fox

Alexis Glick wasÂ promoted toÂ vice president of business news forÂ Fox Business Network, the company announced Wednesday. The network launches Oct. 15.

She is partly responsible for overseeing all aspects ofÂ Fox Business News’Â business programming along withÂ Neil Cavuto, senior vice president and managing editor of business news, to whom she reports.Â

In making the announcement, executive vice president Kevin Magee said, “Alexis has made a tremendous contribution in determining the strategy and content of FBN and its core properties, and we look forward to her serving as one of our main editorial voices on the network.â€?

Glick added, â€œIâ€™m proud to play a role in developing business news coverage for FBN, which provides me with the opportunity to utilize my strengths in news anchoring as well as my Wall Street expertise.â€?

Prior to joining Fox News Channel as a director of business news in September 2006, Glick was a correspondent for NBC Newsâ€™s Today Show, where she appeared regularly on the third hour of the program.Â Before Today, she was a senior trading correspondent for CNBC and reported from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for CNBCâ€™s morning show Squawk Box.Â

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.