Categories: OLD Media Moves

Bloomberg’s Barinka moving to IPO beat

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.

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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