Economics editor Kearns departs Bloomberg

Jeff Kearns

Jeff Kearns, an economics editor at Bloomberg News, has left the news organization.

He had been an economics editor since June 2016. He previously was an options reporter at Bloomberg for 12 years.

Kearns was previously was a political reporter for the Sacramento News & Review. He was also a political columnist, reporter and editor for the Metro newspapers in Silicon Valley.

He holds degrees from Loyola Marymount and Cal-Berkeley.

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.