Categories: OLD Media Moves

Helyar leaving Bloomberg News

John Helyar, one of the co-authors of “Barbarians at the Gate,” is leaving Bloomberg News, where he worked in its Atlanta bureau as an editor at large.

The news comes as Bloomberg recently published a series of articles by Helyar on fraternities.

Helyar previously worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, as a senior writer for Fortune, and as a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine.

Helyar has written ”The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball” and co-authored “Barbarians at the Gate,” which was about the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco and is considered one of the best business books of all time. It was turned into a movie and also appeared on best-seller lists for nine months.

Helyar, a Boston University graduate, is married to The Wall Street Journal’s Betsy Morris.

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.