CNBC Promotes, Updates Several Reporters, Including Megan Cassella who Becomes Washington Correspondent

Megan Cassella is joining CNBC as a correspondent based in its Washington bureau. She will cover the intersection of business and Washington focusing on taxes, budget, regulatory policy and will also report on the market and economic implications of the Biden administration’s industrial policy push as we head into an election year. Her first day will be Jan. 8, 2024.

Cassella joins from Barron’s, where she was most recently its senior economics and policy reporter. During her two years at the company, she had several important cover stories, including one in September laying out the anomalies in the U.S. labor market. Prior to Barron’s, she was a reporter for Politico covering trade, the renegotiation of NAFTA and the Biden administration’s economic policy transition.

Cassella received her B.A. in journalism and international politics at the University of North Carolina.

Separately, CNBC’s Leslie Picker’s has been named senior banking and financial correspondent. Her body of work has included CEO sit-downs including Jamie Dimon and the duo of James Gorman and Ted Pick, breaking news on the growth in private markets and key activist campaigns.

In the network’s San Francisco bureau, Kate Rooney will lead the on-air coverage of much of Amazon’s business, primarily AWS, AI, labor issues, leadership and stock action. She has covered crypto and with the Sam Bankman-Fried trial in her rear-view mirror, she will now focus her reporting on a mega-cap tech firm. She’ll also continue to cover fintech, institutional adoption of crypto, payments and individual investor trends through her reporting on Robinhood, Coinbase and other emerging financial platforms.

Deirdre Bosa will continue to drive the “TechCheck” franchise deeper into the network’s daily television coverage and develop digital features, including a weekly video program and potentially an audio offering, too. In addition, her on-air reporting will increase its focus on the Alphabet empire and its far-flung businesses, action around Chinese tech companies, food delivery and ride sharing. She’ll also be digging deeper into the San Francisco tech community, its players and the culture around it.