Bloomberg team leader Marcinek joins ESPNw

Laura Marcinek, who had been a team leader at Bloomberg News and with the news organization for six years, has joined ESPNw as a senior editor.

Her first day was Monday.

Marcinek had been a team leader and an editor at Bloomberg since the beginning of the year. Before that, she reported on the world’s richest individuals on the billionaires team at Bloomberg.

She has also covered Wall Street and regional banks for the financial news service. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied journalism and political science and wrote for The Daily Tar Heel, and spent two summers during college as a Bloomberg intern on the finance and real estate teams.

In 2008, Marcinek was named a “Best in Business” winner in the student publications division by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

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.