AP hires Adebayo to cover intersection of climate and biz in Africa

Taiwo Adebayo

Associated Press global business editor Noreen Gillespie announced that Taiwo Adebayo will join AP to cover the intersection of climate and business in Africa:

Taiwo Adebayo joins us from the Premium Times of Nigeria, where he is the investigations and data editor. He has deep knowledge about climate, business and how both topics intersect with vulnerable communities in Nigeria and West Africa.
He has experience on ambitious multiformat climate and business projects, including leading reporting for Nigerian stories as part of the Panama Papers and Pandora Papers investigations with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. He has won investigative awards in Nigeria and Ford Foundation grants to report on climate issues. He will be based in Abuja and report to Courtney Bonnell, business editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and collaborate closely with the climate team.
He begins June 1. Please join us in welcoming him to AP!

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.