Bloomberg hires Doyle as global defense editor

Gerry Doyle

Gerry Doyle has been hired by Bloomberg News as global defense editor.

He starts his new job on Monday and will be based in London.

Doyle is an editor on the global news desk at Reuters. He has been posted overseas for 13 years, 10 of them in Asia, with a recurring focus on defense and security. A native of Kansas City, Mo., he has degrees in journalism and philosophy from the University of Kansas.

He previously was deputy business editor for Asia at The New York Times. Doyle also worked at the St. Petersburg Times and the Chicago Tribune, as well as The National.

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.