Bloomberg hires Bennett to be markets news editor

Dashiell Bennett has been hired to join Joe Weisenthal’s new markets team at Bloomberg Media as news editor.

Previously news editor at The Atlantic, Bennett will start on March 2.

Until October, Bennett had been head of The Wire, Atlantic Media’s news and culture site, providing early morning coverage for readers catching up on the latest stories and covering breaking news throughout the day. He previously was an editor and writer at Business Insider, where Weisenthal was executive editor.

A graduate of Michigan State, Bennett was also an editor at Gawker’s Deadspin.

Weisenthal continues to build out his team, having recently announced the hiring of Tracy Alloway from the Financial Times who will serve as executive editor of Bloomberg Media’s markets coverage.

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.