Bloomberg Opinion’s Shipley hired by Washington Post as editorial page editor

David Shipley

David Shipley, the senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion, was named editor of The Washington Post’s editorial page on Thursday.

Paul Farhi and Elahe Izadi of The Post write, “Deputy editorial page editors Ruth Marcus and Karen Tumulty have run the department on an interim basis for several months.

“A Post spokeswoman said Shipley was unavailable for an interview because he is continuing to work at Bloomberg for the next few weeks. In a statement, Shipley said he was ‘thrilled to have the opportunity to work alongside the remarkable team that Fred Hiatt built.’

“‘The Post is a guiding force in journalism for all the right reasons, balancing tradition and the highest standards with relentless innovation and invention,’ Shipley said. ‘Post Opinions reflects all that, consistently offering insights to help readers make sense of the world.'”

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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.