Bloomberg hires Rosenthal to cover weather’s impact on business

Bloomberg News has hired Lauren Rosenthal to cover weather’s impact on business and the government.

She has been a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University.

Rosenthal previously was a senior reporter at APM Reports, the investigative unit of American Public Media, and the host of “In Deep,” a podcast about one American city struggling to recover from a string of climate disasters. Previously, she reported for public radio stations in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and on the edge of New York’s Adirondack Park.

She has contributed to ProPublica, NPR, Al Jazeera America and more, and her work has won regional and national awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi medal for public service journalism.

Originally from Washington State, she is a graduate of Yale 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.