Lachapelle departing Bloomberg after 12 years

Tara Lachappelle

Tara Lachappelle, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, is leaving the news organization after 12 years.

Lachapelle has been a columnist since September 2015. She previously wrote the Real M&A column and was also a stocks and corporate finance reporter.

She has also been a frequent television, radio and podcast guest.

Lachapelle holds a bachelor’s degree from Suffolk University and a master’s degree from Northwestern 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.