Alex Barinka, an East Coast tech reporter for Bloomberg News, is shifting beats to covering initial public offerings.
She will start her new job on Monday. Barinka has also appeared frequently on Bloomberg Television.
Barinka has been a tech reporter, primarily covering IBM, for most of the past two years. Before that, she worked on the stocks team. She has also worked on the mergers and acquisitions team and spent time covering U.S. industrial and aerospace companies.
Barinka is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate in business journalism. At UNC, she received the O. J. “Skipper” Coffin Award to the Outstanding Graduating Senior in News-Editorial Journalism. She worked at the Reese Felts Digital News Project and at The Daily Tar Heel while in college.
