Sportico hires Forbes contributor Bloom

Barry Bloom, a sports business contributor for Forbes for the past two years, has been hired by the new sports business publication Sportico.

He started on Monday.

Bloom has written about professional sports since 1976. He joined Sportico after covering baseball on and off the field for MLB.com from 2002 to 2018.

Previously to that, he worked for Bloomberg News and the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Bloom has been a voter for the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 1992 and in recent years has won five awards from the San Diego Press Club for best columns, news stories and features. His books include biographies of baseball’s Larry Bowa and Tony Gwynn, and he’s currently working on a project about the 1984-era San Diego Padres.

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.