Bloomberg Politics names general manager

Tanya Singer has been named general manager of Bloomberg Politics, which launched last year.

In her new role, Singer will lead a cross-functional team of sales, marketing, editorial and product development across Bloomberg Media’s television, digital and events platforms.

Singer previously worked as a senior director of product management at Yahoo!, as an executive director at Real Simple where she led the relaunch of RealSimple.com and was most recently the chief marketing officer of the online weight-loss start-up, Retrofit.

She is a 1995 graduate of Wellesley College.

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.