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Bloomberg Tax hires Erb to lead commentary team

Kelly Erb

Bloomberg Industry Group announced Wednesday that Kelly Erb has joined the Bloomberg Tax news desk as team lead for commentary and insights.

For the past decade, Erb has written about taxes for Forbes.

In this newly created position, Erb will help subscribers break down sophisticated and time-sensitive tax and financial concepts into manageable pieces.

Erb will also focus on helping tax professionals translate their own experiences and expertise by expanding the breadth and depth of Bloomberg Tax Insights.  These popular articles, written by tax practitioners, offering expert analysis on current issues in tax practice and policy, including recent tax trends and topics like cannabis and crypto, the impact of IRS regulations, and tax and accounting firm practice and management.

“Bloomberg Tax is known for its great tax coverage,” said Erb in a statement. “But we want our reader and customer experience to go beyond reading our great content.”

Kelly is a graduate of Meredith College and Temple University School of Law, where she received her JD and her LLM Tax. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and three children.

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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