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Newman, ex-Bloomberg employee, dies

Scott Newman, who was the primary contact at Bloomberg for many daily newspaper business editors for more than a decade, has died.

Newman, who worked at Bloomberg for 14 years, left Bloomberg in 2011.

Before leaving, Newman was director of content syndication at Bloomberg, working with media organizations to develop partnership ideas with Bloomberg. He was involved in the deal, for example, where the San Francisco Chronicle coordinates daily with Bloomberg’s 50-person San Francisco news bureau to produce the paper’s business section.

Before that, Newman was manager of editorial sales for North America, working with business editors across the country to provide them Bloomberg content. He traveled to newspapers on a regular basis and also attended the annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference.

Newman, a graduate of Northeastern University, was also a reporter at Bloomberg, and he worked at television stations and the Pittsburgh Press.

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.