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Bloomberg’s Matthews retiring after 27 years

Steve Matthews

Bloomberg News economics reporter Steve Matthews is retiring from the news organization after 27 years.

“Thanks to my colleagues in Atlanta, Washington and elsewhere for their friendship and collaboration over the years,” wrote Matthews on Twitter. “As my former boss used to say, the best is yet to come.”

Matthews has  been reporting on the U.S. economy and Federal Reserve from Atlanta since 2004. He was Atlanta bureau chief from 2006 to 2009. Since 1997, he covered a number of big companies for Bloomberg, including Home Depot, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Starbucks.

Matthews previously was the business editor of the Tampa Tribune. He also was the banking reporter and assistant business editor at the Charlotte Obsevrer.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Clemson University and an MBA from UNC-Charlotte.

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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