Categories: OLD Media Moves

Bloomberg TV markets reporter leaves to freelance at CNBC

Sheila Dharmarajan, a markets reporter for Bloomberg Television, has left to take a freelancing position with CNBC, a spokeswoman for the network confirmed to Talking Biz News on Friday.

At Bloomberg, Dharmarajan was also regular host of “Bloomberg Enterprise,” a series focused on fast-growing mid-cap companies, and” Bloomberg Innovators,” a series focused on the latest and greatest leaders in groundbreaking technology. She also recently began hosting a new Yahoo! show, “The Future Is Now!”

She had joined Bloomberg TV in June 2009.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Dharmarajan spent seven years on Wall Street. Her experience includes working in investment banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette as well as private equity at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and Permira.

Dharmarajan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and received an MBA from Stanford University.

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.