Video: Tar Heels in DC - CNBC newsroom with Megan Cassella

Posted Jul 19, 2026
UNC alumna Megan Cassella (class of 2015), Washington Correspondent for CNBC, gives us a tour of the newsroom and studios she works in and discusses how her studies at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media prepared her for assignments at the White House.

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