Bloomberg promotes Buurma to senior editor

Christine Buurma

Bloomberg News has promoted Christine Buurma to senior editor for energy and commodities.

Buurma, who joined Bloomberg in 2010, edits enterprise stories, investigative projects and breaking news, with extreme weather and climate change as a major area of focus. She also helps to oversee editing for the energy and commodities Americas group, a team of more than 40 journalists in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

Buurma was a reporter at Bloomberg for seven years covering natural gas and power companies and related markets. She also worked as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires.

She is a University of Virginia graduate.

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.