Bloomberg Canada hires Zhao-Murray as economics data editor

Bloomberg’s Ottawa bureau has hired Jay Zhao-Murray to be its economics data editor.

He starts Feb. 5.

He has been a foreign exchange analyst for Monex Canada for the past two years. Previously, he was a research assistant at the Bank of Canada and a consultant at MNI.

His commentary has been featured by news outlets that include Bloomberg, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal, in radio interviews, and on national television with Global News.

Zhao-Murray holds a bachelor’s degree from Western University in economics.

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.