Konish joins CNBC.com to cover personal finance

Lorie Konish

Lorie Konish has been hired as a reporter covering personal finance at CNBC.com.

Prior to joining CNBC, Konish worked as an assistant managing editor for Investment News, a Crain’s publication.

She previously worked at On Wall Street magazine, where she won a Neal Award for her cover story on advisers working with clients with mental illness.

Prior to that, she covered life science venture capital investing at Dow Jones and interned at the Associated Press in Buenos Aires.

Konish has a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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.