Bloomberg reporter Leising moving to LA

Matt Leising

Matt Leising, a reporter at Bloomberg News in New York for more than a decade, is moving to the organization’s Los Angeles bureau.

The move is part of Bloomberg’s expansion of its West Coast operations.

Leising will continue to cover market structure and how blockchain and distributed ledger technology may be applied to finance. He also covers developments and regulatory matters in the derivatives and fixed-income markets.

He came to Bloomberg after three years at the Montclarion newspaper in Oakland, California, and has also written for the Financial Times and the Village Voice among other publications.

The native of Los Angeles has a B.S. degree in biopsychology from University of California Santa Barbara and a master’s degree in journalism from University of California at Berkeley.

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.