Categories: OLD Media Moves

Tampa Bay Times biz editor Harrington joining Bloomberg BNA

Jeff Harrington

Jeff Harrington, the business editor of the Tampa Bay Times, is joining Bloomberg BNA in Monday to help run its tax coverage.

Harrington had been business editor since December 2016. He has been at the Times since 1998, primarily as a reporter.

A Notre Dame graduate, Harrington previously worked at the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he covered Procter & Gamble. He also worked at The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, and at the City News Bureau of Chicago.

He has received numerous awards for business and metro writing, including recognition by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and the Associated Press, among others.

Harrington was a past finalist and a winner of a Gerald Loeb Award honoring the best business writing in the country and his work has been included in the Best Business Stories of the Year series.

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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