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Keenan, former CNBC and Fox Biz anchor, has died

Terry Keenan, who worked as an anchor at CNBC and Fox Business Network and who recently was writing a business column for the New York Post, has died at the age of 53, The Hollywood Reporter is reporting.

The Reporter story states, “Keenan was most recently a Sunday business columnist for the New York Post. Her last column was posted online on Oct. 19.

“Keenan formerly worked as an anchor and business correspondent for Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, hosting the Saturday investing program Cashin’ In. She left Fox News in 2009, according to reports.

“She joined Fox News in 2002, according to TV Newser, from CNN, where she served as an anchor and senior correspondent for CNN Business News analyzing Wall Street and the financial markets, according to her Fox News bio. At CNN, she served as a correspondent for Moneyline and anchored its weekend edition. She also anchored Street Sweep on the now-defunct CNNfn.

“She joined CNN Business News in 1986 as a producer for Moneyline before becoming an on-air correspondent, her Fox News bio explains. She left CNN from 1995-98, working as an anchor at CNBC.”

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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.