Breaking the Barrier: Bloomberg News Hires Amara Omeokwe as New Economics Reporter and Chris Roush as Executive Editor

Bloomberg News welcomes Amara Omeokwe as its new economics reporter covering the Federal Reserve Board and the economy. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Omeokwe was a Wall Street Journal economics reporter before being laid off earlier this year. Her previous experience includes working on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and as a video journalist/reporter at Time Warner Cable News in North Carolina. In her role, she covered general assignments and breaking news stories, and was the lead business reporter in the Greensboro newsroom.

Omeokwe also helped launch and served as executive producer on several episodes of “True Story,” a video web series from theGrio.com that focused on issues impacting the African-American community. She began her news career at NBC Universal, moving up from the East Coast Page Program to producing at CNBC. During her four years at CNBC, Omeokwe covered various financial topics such as Wall Street banks, M&A, IPOs, and daily market activities in stocks, bonds, and options. A native New Yorker, she holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

On the other hand, Chris Roush is a former dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University with extensive experience in business journalism. He has worked at Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune, and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Roush is also the author of two books: “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.