Bloomberg hires McBride to cover diplomacy and national security

Courtney McBride

Bloomberg News has hired Courtney McBride to cover diplomacy and national security in its Washington bureau.

She previously was a State Department reporter for The Wall Street Journal for the past four years.

McBride previously was associate editor and managing editor at Inside the Army and a reporter at Inside the Pentagon. She also worked at the National Journal as a staff writer and as an editor.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

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.