Bloomberg hires Weinstein to cover SEC, CFTC

Austin Weinstein

Bloomberg News has hired Austin Weinstein to cover the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in its Washington bureau.

He comes to the role after year as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, where he worked for Sen. Jon Ossoff on Senate Banking Committee issues.

He previously was the banking reporter for the Charlotte Observer and a reporter at Bloomberg News.

Weinstein holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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.