M&A column editor leaving Bloomberg News

Whitney Kisling, an editor at Bloomberg News, has resigned Friday to join a startup company in Los Angeles.

Her last day at Bloomberg is Friday. She starts at NationBuilder on Dec. 3.

Kisling has been the editor of a mergers and acquisitions column since February.

Before that, she was a reporter covering U.S. stocks and exchanges. And she wrote feature stories on developed market trends and breaking news on trading issues and market structure.

She also did stints on Bloomberg News teams covering U.S. technology companies, foreign exchange, U.S. government bonds and corporate finance.

Kisling has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MBA from New York 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.