Bloomberg reporter Lubbers departs for non-journalism job

Payne Lubbers

Payne Lubbers, a foreign exchange reporter at Bloomberg News, has left the news organization for a non-journalism job.

His last day was Wednesday.

Lubbers had been with Bloomberg for the past two years. He previously interned at the Detroit News and The (Raleigh) News & Observer. He a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate in business journalism.

While in college, he was a staff writer at The Daily Tar Heel and editor in chief of the Carolina Political Review.

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.