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NPR hires Bloomberg Law’s Yukhananov

Anna Yukhananov

Anna Yukhananov has been hired by National Public Radio as deputy Washington editor.

She will oversee daily news coverage, working alongside Dana Farrington, the deputy Washington editor for planning.

In addition, Yukhananov will be the main editor of our Justice team, overseeing Carrie Johnson and Ryan Lucas. Additionally, she will be the primary editor for Ximena Bustillo, our general assignment reporter. She will also be backup editor on the Supreme Court and Nina Totenberg’s work.

Yukhananov comes to NPR from Bloomberg Law, where she most recently oversaw coverage of corporate legal issues including antitrust and helped her team break news on a Texas bankruptcy judge embroiled in a secret romance. She previously led news reporting teams focused on Congress, policy and environmental law at Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg Environment, and Morning Consult.

She also worked as a reporter at Reuters in London, Washington and Mexico City. She got her start in journalism writing about the Cake Boss, Snooki, and other local institutions for The Jersey Journal in northern New Jersey.

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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