Bloomberg hires Capurro as reporter

Eloísa Capurro has been hired as a reporter for Bloomberg News in New York.

Capurro has been in the Knight-Bagehot program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for the past year.

She has been an economics journalist at the Búsqueda newspaper in Uruguay, and also a freelance correspondent there for Reuters. She has covered major political and social local developments for the Mexican editions of CNN and Vice, and Brazilian media outlets such as O Estado de São Paulo and Carta Capital.

She started her career at El País of Montevideo, after which she began her specialization in economics reporting at the Spanish newspaper ABC, where she worked in 2012. She has a communications degree from the University of the Republic, and a masters in finance from the University of Montevideo.

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.