Bloomberg’s Ovide named finalist in columnist competition

Shira Ovide

Shira Ovide of Bloomberg Opinion has been named a finalist in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual competition.

Ovide is a finalist in the print publication over 50,000 circulation category.

Ovide is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. Ovide was previously a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, writing about technology from its San Francisco bureau from 2012-2015. Her coverage areas included companies such as Microsoft and Twitter and industry topics such as software, cloud computing and social media.

From 2010-2012, Ovide was in New York as the lead writer for Deal Journal, The Journal’s online hub for news about corporate mergers and acquisitions, Wall Street and other financial issues. At The Journal, Ovide also covered newspapers and magazines, media conglomerates and issues involving the news media.

The winners will be announced at the annual conference in Buffalo on June 22.

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.