O’Leary leaves Bloomberg Television

Joe Weisenthal of Business Insider is reporting that Lizzie O’Leary has left Bloomberg Television.

Weisenthal writes, “Bloomberg TV’s Lizzie O’Leary — the network’s star DC-based reporter — has left the network for a new gig, according to a source familiar with the matter.

“She left sometime after Christmas.

“We’re not yet sure where she’s ending up, though in the meantime we’re happy to keep following her on Twitter, where she has something of a cult following, tweeting under the handle Lizzieohreally.

“O’Leary’s standout work included her extensive reporting from the Gulf during the oil spill in the summer of 2010.”

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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.