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Bloomberg Quicktake signs Barnett for new global show

Emma Barnett

Bloomberg Media has tapped British broadcaster  Emma Barnett for a new weekly interview show on their streaming news network Bloomberg Quicktake, reports K.J. Yossman of Variety.

Yossman reports, “Barnett is currently the host of BBC Radio 4 show ‘Woman’s Hour’ and presents the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme ‘Newsnight.’ She will continue to work on both shows in addition to her new role on Bloomberg Quicktake.

“Previously she worked as a journalist and editor at British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

“Barnett’s new show, the title of which has not yet been announced, will feature interviews with ‘the biggest newsmakers influencing the global conversation,’ according to Bloomberg. Topics will range from business and health care to technology and climate change which Barnett will tackle during ‘intimate, organic conversations’ with her guests.”

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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.

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