Bloomberg Industry Group has hired Butch Maier to be its deputy team leader for tax coverage.
He will start next week. Maier has been editor of business publication Inside Business, and a professor at Hampton University.
At Inside Business, based in Norfolk, Virginia, Maier was writer, associate editor and editor-in-chief and set several records for page views and unique users on InsideBiz.com.
Maier also worked as a copy editor at the Virginian-Pilot, a page designer and copy editor at the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, and a sports page designer and copy editor at the St. Petersburg Times and Boston Globe.
He also worked at the Akron Beacon-Journal and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Maier is a graduate of Guilford College. He recently earned a master’s in strategic communication from California Baptist University.