Bloomberg hires Afanasieva as a reporter in London

Dasha Afanasieva

Dasha Afanasieva has been hired by Bloomberg News as a reporter covering consumer goods in London.

She has been a columnist in London for Reuters Breakingviews writing about the consumer goods sector, as well as Russia and Turkey.

She has been at Reuters since 2012 as deals reporter in London and Turkey correspondent, covering the 2016 coup and the war in Syria. Prior to that she produced business news on BBC radio and worked as an investment banking analyst.

She holds a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford.

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.