Bloomberg names Harrison ME for company coverage in Americas

Crayton Harrison

Crayton Harrison has been named managing editor for company news coverage in the Americas at Bloomberg News.

He previously had been the news organization’s telecom, media and entertainment editor in the Americas.

Harrison has also been the U.S. health and science editor, responsible for a team of health-care reporters covering pharmaceuticals, biotech, insurance and hospitals.

He joined Bloomberg in January 2007 as a telecommunications reporter. Before that, he worked at the Dallas Morning News as a technology reporter.

Harrison is a graduate of Southern Methodist 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.