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O’Brien named publisher of Bloomberg View

Bloomberg View announced Tuesday that business journalist Timothy L. O’Brien has been named to the new position of publisher.

O’Brien is former executive editor of The Huffington Post and will oversee the promotion of View content worldwide, extending the View brand in global media markets and assisting its continued growth as an influential forum on the Web.

“Tim is an outstanding addition to our team: he’s an innovator with extraordinary skills as a journalist and as a promoter of journalism,” said David Shipley, executive editor of Bloomberg View, in a statement. “We’ve spent the last two years establishing View as a vital hub for thoughtful opinion and analysis. Tim will help us engage even more readers around the globe.”

As publisher, O’Brien will forge strategic partnerships to introduce View to more readers in the U.S. and around the world, building on View’s brand of thoughtful, solution-oriented opinion. He will further leverage the resources of Bloomberg LP to enhance View’s brand.

At The Huffington Post, O’Brien helped oversee a newsroom of more than 400 editors and reporters. He edited and oversaw a ten-part series about wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan for which The Huffington Post won a 2012 Pulitzer Prize.

O’Brien oversaw the Sunday Business section of The New York Times from 2006 to 2010. He also helped oversee the team which produced “The Reckoning,” a series that examined the roots of the 2008 financial crisis and which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Loeb Award winner. O’Brien was previously a staff writer for the paper. While at the Times, he won a Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Journalism in 1999. He previously worked for The Wall Street Journal, Talk magazine and National Geographic.

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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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