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Plungis leaves Bloomberg for Consumer Reports

Jeff Plungis

Jeff Plungis has resigned from Bloomberg News to become a senior automotive reporter at Consumer Reports.

He will be based in Washington, working on stories about auto safety, the environment, new technology and corporate accountability.

Plungis has been with Bloomberg since February 2006, working in Washington, covering the auto industry. he also wrote about trucking, the bus industry, highways and aviation security.

He also covered railroads, energy, personal finance and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and worked two years as editor on the finance desk, concentrating on the SEC and banking regulation.

Plungis was previously the Washington correspondent for The Detroit News and worked as a reporter and editor for Congressional Quarterly. He won a Loeb Award in 2005 and was a finalist in 2015.

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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