Alexander named Bloomberg team leader for metals and mining

Doug Alexander

Doug Alexander has been named team leader for metals and mining in the Americas for Bloomberg News.

He has been on the company’s agriculture and metals team in Toronto as an editor. Alexander previously spent 14 year covering Canadian financial services.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Alexander was a reporter at The Vancouver Sun working on the business and city desks, and as a copy editor as well. He has also served as sub-editor at The Independent working on the syndication desk editing domestic and foreign copy among other tasks.

Additionally, Alexander has also worked as correspondent/sub-editor at Gemini News Service and was also a reporter at The Surrey Now, Whistler Question and Revelstoke Times-Review.

Alexander is a B.A. in international relations from the University of British Columbia.

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.