 In 1993, he joined the journalism faculty of the University of Iowa, where he serves as professor and Bessie Dutton Murray Professional Scholar.Bloom has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Society and Medicine and, during the 2011-2012 academic year, he served as the Howard R. Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan.Bloom has also written a number of short stories, and co-written a play called "Shoedog".