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Fortune reporter leaving for Bloomberg News

Mina Kimes, who has been with Fortune magazine for the past six years, is leaving the Time Inc. publication for a reporting job at Bloomberg News.

Kimes will be writing investigative stories about companies at Bloomberg. She starts on Feb. 25.

At Fortune, she writes investing stories and features. In 2009, she received the Nellie Bly Cub Reporter award from the New York Press Club for her story, “The End of Oil.”

She has also won an Asian American Journalists Association national award.

Before joining Fortune in August 2008, Kimes was a reporter at Fortune Small Business.

She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University, where she studied English.

Here is a Q&A she did with ProPublica about a recent investigation into a medical device company.

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.

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