Abbey joins Bloomberg Opinion as a reporter

Richard Abbey

Richard Abbey has joined Bloomberg Opinion as a reporter.

He will work with senior editor John Authers on his “Points of Return” newsletter.

Abbey previously was a commodities reporter covering agriculture and metals industries for Bloomberg, which he joined after completing his master’s degree in data journalism at Columbia University.

He previously was a business journalist in Ghana, whee he worked at the Business and Financial Times and Citi FM, some of the biggest media organizations in the West African country. He covered Ghana’s Eurobond issues, an economic bailout program from the International Monetary Fund, and a central bank-led financial sector restructuring.

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.