Bloomberg names ME for state and municipalities coverage

Alan Goldstein has been promoted to managing editor in charge of the states and municipalities team at Bloomberg News.

Shannon Harrington will take over as team leader for the U.S. corporate finance team, Goldstein’s current position.

Goldstein has been an editor at Bloomberg since March 2007. Before that, he was a reporter and editor on the business news desk of the Dallas Morning News for more than 12 years, and he also spent seven years working on the business news desk at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida.

Goldstein is a Northwestern and Columbia graduate. He replaces Bill Glasgall, who retired last week. He had been at Bloomberg since October 2007 and previously spent 19 years at BusinessWeek magazine.

Harrington has been an editor at Bloomberg News for the past eight years. Before that, he spent time as a reporter for the Bergen Record in New Jersey and the Roanoke Times in Virginia. He is also a Columbia graduate.

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.