Bloomberg names Murray ME for economic coverage

Bloomberg News has made a number of promotions in its economics news coverage team in Washington.

Longtime Bloomberg staffer Brendan Murray has been promoted to managing editor of U.S. economic coverage.

Murray has been with Bloomberg since April 1998, as a commodities reporter, economics reporter, White House correspondent and as an economics editor in Washington and Sydney, Australia.

In addition, Alister Bull is now a team leader in charge of the Fed team. Bull joined Bloomberg in September 2014 after working for more than two decades at Reuters. Bull left Reuters at the end of 2013 after taking a buyout offer from the company. Along with the Federal Reserve, Bull covered the White House and the Treasury and the Iraq War.

Scott Lanman has been named team leader for U.S. economic indicators. He’s been with Bloomberg since September 1999 and was previously international economic policy editor and China economic editor.

Sarah McGregor has been named team leader for U.S. economic policy. She’s been with Bloomberg since May 2007, primarily in Africa.

Ruth Pollard has joined from the Sydney Morning Herald as a team leader in new Delhi for the economics and government team in South Asia.

Lastly, Carlos Torres retired from the news service. He was managing editor of U.S. economic coverage and had been with Bloomberg since 2001.

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.