McQuillan departing Bloomberg Industry for The Action Network

Sam McQuillan

Bloomberg Industry reporter Sam McQuillan is leaving the news organization to cover the sports betting industry for The Action Network.

He has been at the company since June 2019 covering state and local finance, sports betting, tax and business developments for Bloomberg Industry Group’s Daily Tax Report, part of the Bloomberg Tax product platform.

McQuillan previously interned at Bloomberg Industry and for the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Penn State 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.