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LA Business Journal reporter leaving for CNBC

Helen Zhao

Helen Zhao, the residential real estate reporter for the Los Angeles Business Journal, has resigned for a position at CNBC.

Zhao is going to be a rotating news associate at CNBC through different departments before settling into a permanent position. She starts in September.

She has been with the Business Journal since January. Before that, she was a news fellow on the business desk of the Los Angeles Times. She also spent 18 months as a digital content producer for the Daily Mail in Los Angeles.

Zhao has an undergraduate degree from UCLA and a master’s degree from Southern Cal.

While at Southern Cal, she was chosen as one of 15 students across the undergrad and grad programs to report, shoot and edit for ABC News and Diane Sawyer’s “American Dream” special.

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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  • She's a great journalist! Check out her video series "She Means Business"! Best of luck to her at CNBC

  • Go Helen! The best of luck to you and your venture.

    Everyone do check out her series, "She Means Business"!!

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