Bloomberg senior editor Merelman is departing

Stephen Merelman

Bloomberg News senior editor Stephen Merelman is leaving the news organization for a new opportunity.

As a senior editor since January 2016, he has worked on the New York editing hub, a group of high-level journalists, most of them former team leaders and managing editors. He worked extensively with reporters and editors covering U.S. economics, health, Venezuela’s unrest and Puerto Rico’s financial crisis, among other topics.

He previously was a team leader for the state and cities team and has been at Bloomberg since August 2010.

Merelman previously was the state editor and the front page editor at The (Raleigh) News & Observer. He also worked at the Birmingham News, Mobile Press-Register, the Charlottesville Daily Progress and the Montgomery Advertiser.

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.