Bloomberg Law taps Francis as team leader

Laura Francis

Bloomberg Law has named Laura Francis as a team leader for litigation coverage.

She previously was a deputy team leader managing a team of reporters covering labor, employment, and immigration law developments.

Francis was also senior legal editor at Bloomberg Law, where she has worked since 2005.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and a law degree from George Washington 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.