Avis hired by AFP to be US economics correspondent

Daniel Avis

Agence France-Presse has hired Daniel Avis to be its U.S. economics correspondent.

He is based in Washington.

He has been with Bloomberg News in Israel covering the Israel economy and government.

Avis previously spent five years with the BBC, working as a broadcast journalist for “Newshour,” the BBC’s flagship international news program.

He interned on the financial regulation team at Bloomberg in New York and holds a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.