Lang leaving CBC News

Amanda Lang

Amanda Lang, host of the business program “The Exchange” on CBC News Network, is leaving the Toronto-based channel.

A story on its website states, “Lang, who will end her tenure on Friday, is leaving for a new television opportunity and to write a new book, according to a statement from CBC general manager and editor in chief Jennifer McGuire.

“Business journalist Bruce Sellery will host the show for the next two weeks.

“Lang joined CBC News in 2009 to launch The Lang & O’Leary Exchange with Kevin O’Leary, and also served as a senior business correspondent for The National.

“Previously, the veteran business journalist hosted Squeezeplay for Business News Network and also worked for the Globe and Mail, Financial Post and CNN.”

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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.