Bloomberg News reporter Kaplan is leaving

Jennifer Kaplan

Jennifer Kaplan, who has been covering beverages, tobacco and cannabis for Bloomberg News, is leaving the organization after four years.

In an email to friends and colleagues, Kaplan wrote:

After four amazing years at Bloomberg, I’ve made the difficult decision to move on to pursue a new opportunity.
It’s been incredible to get to know all of you on this fun and constantly interesting beat. Thank you for the great conversations.

Kaplan has been at Bloomberg since 2014. She was on the stocks team and the social media monitoring team before joining the consumer team.

She is a graduate of Brown University in international relations.

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.