Mills leaves Bloomberg and returns to Baruch

Josh Mills, a SABEW board member who joined Bloomberg News this summer to start up its reporting of the world of education and how it intersects the business world, has left the wire service and is returning to Baruch College, where he previously taught journalism.

In an e-mail, Mills said, “There are lots of great journalists there [at Bloomberg]. I’m impressed with a lot of the markets, finance and corp coverage. And I’m grateful that Matt Winkler and his team gave me the chance to see how well I could fit in. Baruch College/CUNY was kind enough to offer to take me back, and asked me to helped build the best undergrad journalism program in NYC. It’s a good challenge, and puts me back doing what I love most — training young journalists and then sending them out to all of you.”

Mills, director of the master’s program in business journalism at Baruch that came to an end with the beginning of the master’s program at CUNY, has worked as a business journalist for more than 20 years, half of that at The New York Times as an editor and reporter.

He has written about technology for Bloomberg News, Family PC, Home PC, Graphis and other publications and has written on a wide variety of subjects for Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, New York, TV Guide, Stereo Review, Columbia Journalism Review and other publications. He has also worked as a reporter or editor at the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, The Associated Press, The New York Post, the New York Daily News and Newsday.

Mills has long been involved in training journalists and for many years ran copy editing programs for the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. More recently he served as the U.S. director of the Bertelsmann Summer Academy, a training program for German business journalists. Until recently, he was head of the education committee at SABEW.