Francis joining Bloomberg Law labor team as an editor

Laura Francis, the team leader for Bloomberg Law’s bankruptcy coverage, is joining its labor team as an editor.

She has been managing a team of reporters covering bankruptcy and corporate law developments for the past two years.

Francis previously was a senior legal editor. Prior to 2012, she was the legal reporter/editor for Bloomberg BNA’s Government Employee Relations Report. In that capacity she wrote about court opinions related to public employee issues, helped assemble the issue for publication, and worked with several attorneys and agency officials in producing videos for the website.

She previously worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Francis holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and a law degree from George Washington 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.