Barak Harif departs Bloomberg after 17 years

Tal Barak Harif

Bloomberg News senior editor Tal Barak Harif has left the news organization after 17 years for a new opportunity.

“I feel privileged to have had this opportunity to constantly learn and come in every day to do work that’s truly meaningful,” she wrote on Twitter.

She previously was managing editor for First Word and Top Live, and she also ran the live blog for U.S. events. Barak Harif was a team leader for emerging markets and she was a reporter covering the Israeli capital market.

Barak Harif graduated from the University of Maryland.

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.