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Sterns hired as NBC/MSNBC business and tech correspondent

Olivia Sterns is the new business and tech correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, reports Chris Ariens of TVNewser.com.

Ariends reports, “Sterns joins NBC from Bloomerg TV where she was co-anchor of ‘Bloomberg Surveillance.’

“Sterns spent five years at Bloomberg covering business, economics and finance, as well as participating in the TVNewser Bracket Challenge. Sterns previously worked at CNN International, ABC News and at The Institute for State Effectiveness.

“‘She will be a major driver of coverage across the day for MSNBC as well as reporting for TODAY, Nightly News and digital,’ writes MSNBC president Phil Griffin in a note to staff.”

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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.