Bloomberg journalist Litvan departs

Laura Litvan

Bloomberg News journalist Laura Litvan has been laid off from the news organization after 24 years.

She has been covering Congress, both policy and politics. For most of her time, she served as a leadership reporter in the Senate or House, a broad-based job responsible for covering key legislation and Capitol Hill politics.

She was a point person on everything from the passage of Obamacare and the failed 2017 effort to repeal it, immigration, the financial bailout, defense, energy, and five Supreme Court confirmations.

Litvan previously worked as a Washington correspondent for Investor’s Business Daily and as assistant editor for Nation’s Business. She also spent nearly six years as a reporter for the Washington Times.

Litvan is a graduate of Indiana 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.