Categories: OLD Media Moves

Edelman moves from Bloomberg to WSJ

Larry Edelman, a managing editor at Bloomberg News based out of Boston, has accepted a new job at The Wall Street Journal.

Edelman is now senior deputy editor of finance for The Journal, according to his LinkedIn page.

Edelman spent nine years at Bloomberg where he oversaw investing and real estate coverage globally.

Edelman joined Bloomberg in January 2005 and served as investing team leader until October 2009, directing coverage of hedge funds, private equity and mutual funds. Previously, he was second vice president-investor relations at John Hancock Financial Services, where he worked on the company’s 2000 initial public offering.

Edelman spent 10 years at The Boston Globe as a reporter and, from 1994-2000, business editor. He also was a technology reporter at Reuters in New York.

He is a 1983 graduate from Cornell University.

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.