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Parenti named editor on Bloomberg’s DC breaking news team

Alisa Parenti

Alisa Parenti has been named an editor on the breaking news team in Bloomberg News’ Washington bureau.

Parenti has been anchoring live Bloomberg business reports for major radio stations in Chicago, Detroit and New York.

She has been honored with numerous Dateline Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and was a recipient of two national awards from the RTDNA/NEFE and the NYSSCPA for Excellence in Personal Finance Reporting.

Prior to her work at Bloomberg, Parenti served as a business news reporter at Dow Jones/MarketWatch. She also previously reported general assignment news and anchored at WJLA-TV (ABC) and News Channel 8 in Washington D.C. Before arriving in Washington in 2001, Parenti worked at WBBS-FM, WTVH-TV (CBS) and WSYR-TV (ABC) in Syracuse, New York. She also wrote a column for Syracuse Parent magazine.

Parenti earned a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at 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.

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