Former WSJ reporter Etter joins Bloomberg News

Lauren Etter, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, has been hired by Bloomberg News.

She started Monday in its Austin, Texas bureau, where she is on the state and municipalities team.

Etter has spent the last four years freelancing for a number of publications, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Business Insider, Vanity Fair, the ABA Journal and The New Yorker.

She spent six and a half years at The Journal before that. Etter is a Northwestern University graduate.

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.