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Bloomberg names Kaufman executive editor for company news

Jonathan Kaufman has been appointed executive editor for companies news at Bloomberg, succeeding Laurie Hays, who is now a senior executive editor.

Kaufman joined Bloomberg News from the Wall Street Journal in 2009 as team leader for education and then became managing editor for health and education globally.

Projects he has overseen at Bloomberg have won numerous awards, inluding the George Polk, Overseas Press Club, Gerald Loeb and Education Writers Association Grand Prize.

Kaufman served as Beijing bureau chief for the Journal and Berlin bureau chief for the Boston Globe.

He has a BA from Yale and an MA in East Asian studies from Harvard and will be moving to New York to assume his new role, which is effective immediately.

In addition, Cesca Antonelli, currently Washington bureau chief, also moves to New York to become chief of staff to Hays and the beat reporting executive editors.

Antonelli started at Bloomberg in 1999 as the late general assignment reporter. She quickly joined the tech group, and she has since held the titles of team leader for technology, managing editor for companies news in Europe and then in the Americas.

Antonelli will start as chief of staff Nov. 1 and will be moving to New York in the coming year. She attended University of Pittsburgh.

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.