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The best gig going

Ali Velshi, the chief business correspondent for CNN, talked with Alex Weprin of TVNewser about his new show that covers business internationally.

Weprin writes, “‘For a business journalist in 2012, I have about the best gig going,’ Velshi told TVNewser. ‘I will be doing stuff for a global audience every morning, which is their primetime. The show is 7 PM in India, 10 PM in Hong Kong, 11 PM in Tokyo, those audiences are very financially sophisticated.’

“It also means that he can wake up at a more reasonable hour, although he will be spread out more across the many CNN platforms.

”I had my first full night of rest [last Monday], it has been a long time on the mornings,’ he added. ‘I will be doing business like I used to for primetime, reporting and providing commentary and analysis from probably 4PM onward. It is going to be a long and weird schedule, but it sort of fits what I have been doing recently on different platforms.'”

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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.