Categories: OLD Media Moves

Bloomberg hires new airlines reporter

Michael Sasso, a business reporter at The Tampa Tribune, has been hired by Bloomberg News to cover airlines out of its Atlanta bureau.

Tony Wilbert, a PR person in Atlanta, writes, “Mike Sasso starts at Bloomberg later this month after the obligatory training at Bloomberg Tower in New York, where he’ll be inundated in ‘The Bloomberg Way.’ We’re sure he’s covering Delta, United, USA Airways, UPS,

“Sasso is relocating from Tampa, Fla., where he worked 11 years at The Tampa Tribune and three at Lakeland Ledger. Mike’s most recently covered economic development and commercial real estate, the best beat in the business. He’s already updated his LinkedIn profile.

“I ran into Mike this morning during a spec breakfast at Flying Biscuit at Terminus in Buckhead. He smartly was meeting with his predecessor, Mary Jane Credeur, who left journalism in September 2013 for a job at commercial real estate services firm Transwestern.”

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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.