News service hires Loeb winner

Neil Roland, who won a Gerald Loeb Award while working for Bloomberg News, has been hired by UK-based regulatory news, commentary and data service MLex market intelligence as a senior correspondent.

Roland tells Talking Biz News he will remain in Washington, DC. He is on a freelance basis for December, then starts on a permanent basis next month. He will lead its coverage of U.S. finance regulation.

Roland was previously a reporter with Crain Communications in Washington. He was the 2008 co-winner of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and Jesse H. Neal awards for reporting on the Federal Reserve response to the U.S. bailout.

From 1992 to 2008 he worked at Bloomberg in Washington where he also won the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism for coverage of the SEC response to Enron abuses and the SABEW enterprise journalism award for exclusives on Internet stock picker Tokyo Joe.

Previously, he was an investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, United Press International’s Washington bureau, and Army Times. He has also won awards from the National Press Club, the American Medical Writers Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Florida Press Club. He has a master’s degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.