Mysak, municipal bond legend, retiring in June

Joe Mysak

Joe Mysak, who has been covering municipal bonds for 43 years, is retiring at the end of next month from Bloomberg News.

Mysak joined The Bond Buyer in 1981 as a copy editor and learned about municipal bonds from the ground up, eventually rising to editor and publisher of the newspaper.

In 1994, he founded a series of municipal market-related biweekly newsletters, including Grant’s Municipal Bond Observer, for the Interest Rate Publishing Corporation.

In 1999, Mysak joined Bloomberg News as a columnist. He is the author of the book “Handbook for Muni-Bond Issuers” and the “Encyclopedia of Municipal Bonds.”

He also edited the daily Bloomberg Brief called “Municipal Market.”

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.