Bloomberg hires Meddings as UK business reporter

Bloomberg News has hired Sabah Meddings as a UK business reporter based in London.

She will start Oct. 31.

Meddings is currently chief business correspondent for The Sunday Times. She primarily writes about pharmaceuticals, consumer and leisure, writing for the paper’s business section on everything from gambling to tobacco, life sciences and Britain’s biggest consumer companies.

She also worked for The Daily Mail and the Eastern Daily Press. Meddings holds a master’s degree from the University of Aberdeen.

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.