Bellstrom joins Bloomberg Opinion as senior editor

Kristen Bellstrom

Kristen Bellstrom has joined Bloomberg Opinion as a senior editor.

She previously was at Barron’s, where she was managing editor for enterprise and investigations.

Before Barron’s, Bellstrom was executive editor at Fortune. She joined Fortune in 2015 to take over as the lead writer of the “Broadsheet,” and at the time the fledgling newsletter had fewer than 15,000 subscribers. Under her leadership, the newsletter had more than 100,000 daily readers.

As an editor at Fortune, stories that she shepherded have won SABEW, New York Press Club, Headliner and Excellence in Financial Journalism awards, just to name a few honors.

She also worked at Smart Money and Money magazines.

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.