Italy economy reporter Totaro departs Bloomberg

Lorenzo Totaro

Lorenzo Totaro, a reporter for Bloomberg News in Italy covering the economy, has left the news organization.

Totaro is joining Italy at Expo 2020 Dubai as director of communications.

He had been at Bloomberg for more than 18 years, including the last 11 based in Rome. Totaro also worked for Bloomberg Television as an editor, producer and reporter.

He previously worked at Gruppo Editoriale as a London correspondent.

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.