Bloomberg hires FT’s Noonan as a senior reporter

Laura Noonan

Bloomberg News has hired Laura Noonan in London as a senior reporter covering a broad financials beat.

She has been financial regulation editor at the Financial Times. She covered financial regulation, conduct and related topics across the world’s banks, insurers, asset managers, cryptocurrency companies, and anyone else offering financial services.

Previously, she served as an investment banking correspondent, U.S. banking editor and acting Ireland correspondent at the FT. She also served as European banking correspondent at Thomson Reuters.

She was also a banking correspondent and then part of investigations at Irish Independent. Noonan also worked as a business reporter at both Irish Independent and The Sunday Business Post.

Noonan has a B.A. in journalism from Dublin City 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.