Bloomberg Law hires Stein to cover Medicare

Shira Stein

Shira Stein has been hired by Bloomberg Law to cover Medicare.

She started on Monday.

Stein is a former intern on the Metro Desk at The Washington Post. She also spent a summer interning with Bloomberg BNA on its corporate and transactional news desk and a semester interning with The Durango Herald as its Washington correspondent.

During college, she was also a freelance writer for Media File and a freelance social media producer for The Hill, running Facebook Live streams and its Snapchat. She has also edited pieces published in The Washington Post, NBC News, The Hill and Huff Post.

Stein is a graduate of American University.

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.