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Bloomberg hires Blakely in LA bureau

Lindsay Blakely

Bloomberg News has hired Lindsay Blakely to work in its Los Angeles bureau, starting next month.

She previously was deputy business editor at the Los Angeles Times.

Blakely previously was Inc.com’s managing editor. She also served as Inc. magazine’s Los Angeles bureau chief, keeping tabs on up-and-coming startups and the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. that call the city home.

She’s written cover stories on Jessica Alba, Drybar’s Alli Webb, and Dollar Shave Club’s Michael Dubin, among other noteworthy entrepreneurs. Prior to joining Inc., Blakely held editorial roles at CBS Interactive and Time Inc.

She holds degrees from Boston College and Northwestern University.

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.

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