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Yahoo Finance reporter Chung leaves for Variety

Heidi Chung

Yahoo Finance reporter Heidi Chung has left the business news website for a job at Variety.

She will start her new job on July 27.

Chung will be writing for Variety’s new subscription-based platform VIP (Variety Intelligence Platform) under Andy Wallenstein and  will also be doing on-camera digital video.

She has been an on-air reporter at Yahoo Finance since October 2018. Chung previously spent two years at CNBC as an associate producer, managing and booking regular panelists on “Fast Money” and “Options Action.”

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California-Santa Cruz and a master’s degree from the University of Southern California.

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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