Bloomberg Ottawa bureau chief Argitis is departing

Theo Argitis

Theo Argitis, the Ottawa bureau chief for Bloomberg News, is leaving the organization after nearly 24 years.

His last day is Friday. He has been bureau chief since January 2005. “I’ll have more to say about what’s next for me in coming days. It will be a completely new chapter in my professional life,” he wrote on Twitter.

Argitis previously was a reporter for Bloomberg in Athens, Greece.

He was also business news editor for the Athens News and managing editor for New Europe in Athens.

Argitis holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a master’s from the University of Toronto.

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.