Bloomberg names new Wal-Mart reporter

Shannon Pettypiece has joined the U.S. consumer team at Bloomberg News to cover Wal-Mart and other retailers.

She replaces Renee Dudley, whose aggressive reporting on the world’s largest retailer got her banned from its media events. Dudley left to work at Reuters.

Pettypiece has been at Bloomberg for nine years, covering many aspects of the health care system, including big pharma, biotech and the impact of Obamacare. Her reporting last year on medical-data privacy won a New York Press Club award and was a finalist for the SABEW Best In Business award. Pettypiece recently covered patients’ struggle to find psychiatrists willing to treat them and patients going to extremes to obtain an expensive hepatitis drug.

Before joining Bloomberg, Pettypiece worked for Crain’s Cleveland Business and Miami Today News. She got her start in journalism with an internship at The New York Times in Washington after graduating from University of Michigan. She later worked for the Times in Detroit.

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.