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Butt departs Bloomberg for 9fin to be deputy distressed editor

Rachel butt

Bloomberg News reporter Rachel Butt has been hired as deputy distressed editor at 9fin, where she will cover news on troubled companies, help guide reporters and edit stories.

She starts her job next week in New York.

Butt was previously a reporter with Bloomberg, covering debt restructurings and bankruptcies. Prior to Bloomberg, which she joined in July 2021, she was an associate editor at Debtwire.

She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, specializing in business journalism. She also earned a master’s degree in business and economic reporting at New York 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.

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