Bloomberg hires Landy as senior editor

Heather Landy

Bloomberg News has hired Heather Landy to be a senior editor leading work and management coverage.

She will start Sept. 3.

Landy had been executive editor at Quartz.

Landy joined Quartz in 2014 and was previously global news editor and managing editor. She joined Quartz in 2014 from American Banker Magazine, where she was editor in chief. She previously wrote for Bloomberg News, The Washington Post, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Landy has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her reporting in Texas earned her a Gerald Loeb award.

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.