Egkolfopoulou tapped to be team leader for Bloomberg legal coverage

Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou

Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou, a personal finance reporter for Bloomberg News, has been named team leader for its legal coverage.

She will manage a team of reporters who cover courtrooms across the country and organize coverage on the biggest legal cases.

Egkolfopoulou had been on the 2020 election reporting team before joining the personal finance desk.

Before the election, Egkolfopoulou had been covering real estate in New York. She previously worked on the corporate finance team and also covered the trial of Martin Shkreli. Before Bloomberg, she spent two years as a television reporter in Greece.

She is a graduate of Syracuse University and Cal-Berkeley.

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.