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Bloomberg News hires Cantrell as US investing team leader

Amanda Cantrell

Bloomberg News has hired Amanda Cantrell to be U.S. investing coverage team leader.

She will start on Monday.

Cantrell as been at Business Insider as finance features editor, where led a team writing stories about the most powerful firms and people on Wall Street.

She previously worked at Institutional Investor as a deputy editor and as a senior writer with Absolute Return magazine and at CNN as a reporter for its online business news vertical.

She has also appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” the “Today Show,” and ABC “World News This Morning,” and she also serves as a volunteer editor for the Prison Journalism Project.

She holds a master’s degree in journalism from New York University, where she has also worked as an adjunct professor

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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