Bloomberg reporter Porter departs for new job

Gerald Porter

Bloomberg News reporter Gerald Porter Jr. has left the news organization for a new job.

He has been covering consumer packaged goods and beauty sectors of major organizations including Procter & Gamble, Ulta and Coty since January 2020.

Before joining Bloomberg as a reporting intern in 2018, Porter held the same post at The Wall Street Journal. before that, he was an editorial intern at Chicago Tribune Media Group. He also held the post of associate campus news editor at The Badger Herald.

Porter holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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.