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Heltman named DC bureau chief at American Banker

John Heltman

American Banker has been named John Heltman its Washington bureau chief.

He has been editor in chief of American Banker magazine. A replacement will take on that position.

Heltman is the creator of American Banker’s narrative podcast “Bankshot,” which will continue. He was awarded the Grand Neal, the top honor bestowed by the Jesse H. Neal Awards, in 2019 for his narrative podcast series “Nobody’s Home,” which examines the economic and social impact of concentrated vacant housing

Heltman has covered the Federal Reserve Board and Treasury Department for American Banker since 2014. Before joining American Banker, he covered derivatives markets and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for Argus Media, and before that covered the Environmental Protection Agency for Inside Washington Publishers.

He is a 2005 graduate of St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

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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