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Skillman named alternative data editor at Bloomberg

Brad Skillman

Brad Skillman has been named alternative data editor at Bloomberg News.

The position is part news, part product as the news organization tries to figure out better ways to tell stories using data.

Skillman has previously been a senior editor on the breaking news team, using data to help support Bloomberg’s M&A and earnings coverage. He was separately working to enhance its data journalism training in Python, R, SQL, Excel and proprietary Bloomberg technologies.

He previously was a team leader and managing editor for Bloomberg First Word and an editor for its Top news section.

Skillman previously worked at the Associated Press as assistant business editor and stock market tables editor.

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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