Seeking Alpha hires Bloomberg’s Fineman

Josh Fineman

Seeking Alpha has hired longtime Bloomberg News reporter Josh Fineman.

He will start Jan. 1 as a senior news editor for mergers and acquisitions, and special situations.

Fineman had been with Bloomberg for more than 23 years. He has been working on Bloomberg First Word, focusing on analyst ratings, M&A, casinos, for-profit educations and market intelligence.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

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.