Chappatta named team leader for Bloomberg’s billionaires coverage

Bloomberg News has named Brian Chappatta as the team leader for its billionaires coverage.

Brian Chappatta

He has spent the last four years in Bloomberg Opinion as a columnist writing about the debt markets. He was also interim team leader for Bloomberg’s U.S. investing team focusing on hedge funds, private equity, endowments, and asset managers.

He has also been a municipal bonds reporter and U.S. government bonds/FX reporter.

He has also freelanced for Crain’s New York Business and interned for Bloomberg, Medill Watchdog Initiative, Spark Communications, Chicago Cubs and Team Marketing Report.

He has also interned at and was a featured columnist at Bleacher Report.

Chappatta holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and economics from Northwestern University, where he worked at the student newspaper.

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.