Bloomberg hires Rochabrun to be Peru bureau chief

Marcelo Rochabrun

Bloomberg News has hired Marcelo Rochabrun to be its Peru bureau chief.

He was at Reuters in Peru covering that country and Latin American mining.

He previously was in Sao Paulo for Reuters covering Uber, Embraer, airlines and automakers in Latin America.

Rochabrun previously was a stringer for the New York Times in Peru and also worked at ProPublica as a senior reporting fellow.

He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he was editor in chief of the student newspaper.

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.