Korte to cover New York city hall for Bloomberg

Gregory Korte

Bloomberg News reporter Gregory Korte has moved to the New York city hall beat on a temporary basis, filling in for Laura Nahmais, who’s on maternity leave.

He was hired from USA Today, where he was a senior national correspondent, in 2020 to be part of its presidential campaign coverage.

As a White House correspondent for USA Today, Korte won the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency for coverage of President Obama’s last year in office. What helped him win the prize was a series of stories he did on Obama’s pardons and commutations – based in part on a database he built by hand.

As a Congress reporter for the paper, he filed 120-plus Freedom of Information Act requests a year, including several for never-before-released data sets.

Korte is an Ohio native who also worked at the Cincinnati Enquirer and Akron Beacon Journal.

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.