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Rogers named Yahoo Finance senior producer

Jen Rogers

Jen Rogers has been named senior producer for Yahoo Finance video to help oversee editorial content of its three daily live shows and help grow live video offerings.

Rogers, who has been with Yahoo for three years, will continue to serve as anchor of “The Final Round,” airing weekdays at 3:55 p.m.

“I’m thrilled that Jen has expanded her role at Yahoo Finance,” says Yahoo Finance editor in chief Andy Serwer in a statement. “She’s the consummate business news professional. The success of the Final Round is a testament to her expertise and vision.”

Tuesday marked the 500th episode of “The Final Round,” part of Yahoo Finance’s full slate of live business day programming, which also includes “Market Movers” at 9:25 a.m. and “Midday Movers” at 11:45 a.m.

Combined, these three shows bring in an average of 381,639 total live views per day and 9.8 million total views weekly.

Prior to Yahoo, Rogers worked at Reuters, where she won the 2011 Gracie Award for Best Online News Anchor and contributed to Reuters award-winning investigations into shell companies. Rogers also worked at CNN in both New York and Los Angeles.

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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