Bloomberg taps Beyoud to cover SEC and CFTC

Lydia Beyoud

Bloomberg News has hired Lydia Beyoud to cover the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission on its financial policy team.

She previously had been at Bloomberg Law covering corporate governance and ESG for the past year.

Beyoud had worked for Reorg Research covering antitrust. She had also worked previously for Bloomberg BNA writing the Daily Tax Report and as the senior tech and telecom reporter.

She has a bachelor’s degree from Portland State University and a master’s degree from American 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.