Parker to helm White House and politics team at Bloomberg

Mario Parker

Mario Parker has been tapped by Bloomberg News to helm its newly merged White House and politics team in Washington.

He previously was in charge of Bloomberg Politics coverage and had been a White House reporter at Bloomberg for two years.

Parker has been with Bloomberg for more than 16 years. Previously, he covered agriculture, energy, breaking news and the nexus between the Midwest and Washington policy. He has also served as a general assignment reporter, covering breaking news nationally and in Washington D.C.

Parker has received numerous awards and honors and holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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.