How CNBC senior VP Colarusso’s day has changed

Dan Colarusso

Dan Colarusso, the senior vice president of business news at CNBC, talked about how his normal day has changed during the coronavirus pandemic.

Colarusso typically arrived at the office at 7 a.m. and goes to the newsroom. Not anymore.

“There aren’t many people in the newsroom any more, so I hit the phone and email” with his senior managers to find out what’s going on, said Colarusso. They then have a story meeting, which is done almost entirely by phone.

“Never has the real genius of CNBC, the talent of our producers, shown through more,” he said.

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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.