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Leonard hired by Bloomberg to cover trade

Jenny Leonard

Jenny Leonard, associate editor of Inside U.S. Trade, has been hired by Bloomberg News to cover the trade beat.

She starts next month.

Leonard has been a been a reporter in Washington for three years and has covered the trade policy beat for two years. Prior to her work at Inside U.S. Trade, her print and video pieces were published by Vice News, USA Today, the Texas Tribune, the Marine Corps Times and McClatchy.

As a trade reporter, she broke stories about the Trump administration’s trade team and trade agenda, including on the legal implications of Robert Lighthizer’s nomination to become U.S. Trade Representative.

Leonard has a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Duke University and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern 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.

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