Bloomberg hires Barron’s Kim

Crystal Kim

Bloomberg News has hired Barron’s reporter Crystal Kim to join its staff.

She will start June 17.

Kim will be the equity capital markets reporter at Bloomberg News. She will cover IPOs and secondary offerings. Kim started out at Barron’s August 2010 as a research assistant and was most recently the funds columnist with a focus on ETFs.

She also hosted “Numbers By Barron’s,” a daily market briefing mini-podcast.

She is a New York University graduate.

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.