Bloomberg stocks editor gets promotion

Joanna Ossinger

Joanna Ossinger, a stocks editor at Bloomberg News focusing on U.S. markets and global options coverage, has been promoted to deputy team leader for the Bloomberg First Word product.

The team leader is Brad Skillman, and the managing editor is Kevin Reynolds.

First Word is Bloomberg’s news product directly aimed at real-time investors that launched in 2010. Ossinger posted the job change on her Facebook page Tuesday night and said that she would start the new position late next month.

Ossinger, who is a board member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, joined Bloomberg in February 2010 after spending 14 months at Fox Business Network as a senior editor. Before that, she was with the Wall Street Journal for four years as a reporter and editor.

Ossinger has a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University, and a dual BA cum laude in chemistry and classical civilizations from Cornell University. She is a native of Colorado.

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.