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Bloomberg Industry’s Kessler joining AP’s data journalism team

Aaron Kessler

Bloomberg Industry Group investigative reporter Aaron Kessler is joining the data journalism team at the Associated Press.

He has been at Bloomberg Industry Group spearheaded an investigative unit that crosses over its industry groups such as Bloomberg Environment and Bloomberg Government.

Before that, he was at CNN as a senior producer on the politics team.

Kessler previously covered the auto industry and regulation for The New York Times and worked on the national investigative team at the Scripps Washington Bureau.

Kessler has also been a staff writer for 100Reporters, a nonprofit journalism organization based in Washington, and he worked at the Detroit Free-Press in its Washington bureau focused on autos.

He previously worked at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune covering the housing market. Kessler was honored by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and UCLA’s Gerald Loeb business awards for his extensive investigation of tainted Chinese drywall, tracking its shipment into the United States and its spread across the country.

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.

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