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Bloomberg’s Coke reporter has left Atlanta bureau

Duane Stanford, who has covered Coca-Cola Co. for Bloomberg News for nearly eight years out of its Atlanta bureau, has left the news service.

In an email to his colleagues, Stanford wrote:

I will be permitted soon enough to disclose my new destination. For now, though, I thank you for your friendship, humor and collaboration. It is with mixed feelings that I depart at this time of great organizational change, when opportunity here is all around. To remain a part of the evolution was quite tempting. At the same time, I could hardly be more excited about what’s next. Bloomberg News is urgent, important and a little weird. I am so glad I was a part of it.

Stanford joined Bloomberg in November 2007 from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His beat also included PepsiCo Inc., Starbucks and bottling companies such as Coca-Cola Enterprises.

Stanford began covering Coca-Cola and the beverage industry for the Atlanta paper in October 2006. He has been a reporter at the newspaper since 1992, covering topics ranging from local government to the governor’s office and statewide transportation policy.

Stanford, born in Atlanta and raised in Memphis, came back to his hometown in the late 1980s to attend Oglethorpe University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree.

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.