Reporter Keller leaves Bloomberg for new job

Laura J. Keller, a reporter at Bloomberg News covering Bank of America and Jefferies, has left the news organization.

Keller’s last day at Bloomberg was Aug. 15. She has a new job that has not been announced yet.

She had been at Bloomberg since June 2014 and also contributeed to Bloomberg Television, including as fill-in anchor, and to Bloomberg Radio.

In her previous reporting beat at Bloomberg, Keller developed an expertise in distressed debt and broke stories in that shrouded subset of the corporate finance world. She regularly wrote exclusive news about companies’ bankruptcy negotiations, Puerto Rico debt crisis scoops, major hedge funds’ fixed-income strategies and problems in the U.S. credit markets.

Keller received her master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied broadcast reporting at the graduate level. her coursework emphasized video and digital storytelling and data journalism, with a subject specialty in business reporting. She studied post-Dodd-Frank regulation of financial derivatives at Columbia Law School.

She is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she completed a double major in economics and print journalism.