Bloomberg hires Johnson as space editor

Eric M. Johnson

Bloomberg News has hired Eric M. Johnson to be its space editor.

Johnson has been has been an aerospace correspondent for Reuters covering Boeing. He previously covered general news and U.S. freight transportation and is based in Seattle.

He also worked for the Chicago Sun-Times as a staff writer and as a sports journalist for The Observer in London.

Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree from Albion College.

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.