Sterngold departs from Businessweek

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

James Sterngold, a reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek, left the business magazine earlier this week, a spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.

It is unknown if he left for another job. He had been at the magazine since May 2009.

Last year, Sterngold won the award for best financial/economic reporting at the Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2010. Sterngold’s report ‘Who Cares About Another $200 Million?’ on former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld failing to declare hundreds of millions of dollars worth of compensation to U.S. Congress, appeared in the May 3-May 9 issue of the magazine.

Sterngold was once the Los Angeles bureau chief for The San Francisco Chronicle, which he left in September 2007. He worked as a correspondent and reporter for The New York Times from 1984 to 2002 and is the author of “Burning Down the House: How Greed, Deceit and Bitter Revenge Destroyed E. F. Hutton” (Summit Books, 1990).

He graduated from Middlebury College and received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia.

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.