Bloomberg Law hires Atkinson to cover labor and employment

Khorri Atkinson

Bloomberg Law has hired Khorri Atkinson as a senior reporter covering labor and employment stories.

He previously was at Law360. Atkinson is also the president of the Washington chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.

His work has been published in several local and national media outlets such as The New York Times, NBCNews.com and MSNBC.com. Others include, Politico.com, QZ.com, the New York Amsterdam News, Queens Chronicle and NBC-owned TV stations’ websites.

Atkinson a native of St. Ann, Jamaica, West Indies, holds a Master’s of Arts degree in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York with a specialization in urban reporting, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from York College/CUNY.

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.