Rebecca Jarvis to Join CBS News' ‘Early Show'

Former CNBC reporter will also serve as business, economics correspondent

By Marisa Guthrie -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/1/2010 11:36:58 AM

Rebecca Jarvis has joined CBS News as newsreader for the Saturday edition of The Early Show, CBS News announced April 1. She will also serve as business and economics correspondent for CBS News. Jarvis comes to CBS News from CNBC. She left the NBC Universal business network last fall and has now sat out her six-month non-compete clause. 
She'll be on The Early Show this weekend. 

Jarvis is the latest in a recent spate of TV news reporters to leave cable for broadcast. CNN's Christiane Amanpour will begin hosting ABC's This Week in August. Betty Nguyen left CNN for CBS where she's anchoring the CBS Morning News. And Erica Hill also left CNN for CBS News where she is currently the news reader on The Early Show and anchor of the Saturday edition of the morning program.