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Bloomberg executive editor Kaufman to run Northeastern journalism school

Jonathan Kaufman, executive editor for companies news at Bloomberg, has been named the director of the School of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.

In a note to the Bloomberg editorial staff on Tuesday, editor in chief John Micklethwait wrote:

In his six years here, Jonathan has been involved in and directed many of our award-winning enterprise pieces, including Inversions, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and our investigation into student loan abuses, a George Polk winner. We wish him the best of luck – and I am looking forward to him sending us squadrons of promising young journalists.

The Companies beat is a huge one, so I have asked Laura Zelenko to review how we cover business around the world. In the meantime we’ve asked Dan Hauck, Jonathan’s deputy, to oversee Company news on an interim basis. Dan joined us in 2004 on the stocks team and has since run equities coverage in the U.S. and Europe, overseen the Real M&A column, and became global managing editor for company news in 2013.

Kaufman joined Bloomberg News from the Wall Street Journal in 2009 as team leader for education and then became managing editor for health and education globally.

Kaufman served as Beijing bureau chief for the Journal and Berlin bureau chief for the Boston Globe.

He has a BA from Yale and an MA in East Asian studies from Harvard.

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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  • Great news for the students of Northeastern. They are getting one of the best of the best!

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