Bloomberg News reporter Penny departs after 13 years

Thomas Penny, a reporter at Bloomberg News in London for the past 13 years, has left the news organization.

“I’m going to have a break while I decide what to do next,” he wrote on Twitter. “Thank you to everyone who’s supported me on the way.”

Penny covered UK politics through a tumultuous period of British history, including four general elections, three referendums, and one recession. He previously was deputy news editor at The Daily Telegraph.

He was also a reporter for The Mail on Sunday and editor of Gloucestershire Gazette series of weekly newspapers.

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.