Bloomberg’s Parker moving to White House beat

Mario Parker

Mario Parker, a reporter for Bloomberg in Chicago, is moving to the Washington bureau to begin covering the White House.

He has been writing about agriculture, energy, finance and wide-ranging general breaking news across the U.S. Midwest.

Parker has been with Bloomberg since September 2006. He has a bachelor’s degree from Benedictine College and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois.

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.