Bloomberg reporter Thornhill is departing

James Thornhill

James Thornhill, who covers metals and mining and is Sydney deputy bureau chief, is leaving Bloomberg News after eight years.

He also covered energy policy, climate change, oil and gas, liquid natural gas, renewables, battery storage and anything else related to Australia’s energy sector.

Before joining Bloomberg, Thornhill was EMEA editor of CitiFX Wire, a scrolling news service provided to Citi’s foreign exchange clients across the globe.

He also worked at Reuters.

Thornhill is a graduate of University of Hull and has a master’s degree from Cambridge 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.