Bloomberg hires Takahashi to cover US shale oil

Paul Takahashi

Bloomberg News has hired Paul Takahashi to cover U.S. shale oil companies out of its Houston bureau.

He starts on Monday.

Takashashi has been at the Houston Chronicle as a real estate reporter. He was previously covering real estate for the Houston Business Journal.

Before joining the Business Journal, Takahashi was a staff reporter for the Las Vegas Sun for four years, covering education. He also held editorial positions at The Jersey Journal in New Jersey and The Times in Johannesburg, South Africa.

He earned both master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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.