Bronner named Israel bureau chief for Bloomberg

Ethan Bronner has been named Israel bureau chief and a senior editor for the Middle East at Bloomberg News.

He previously was a senior editor in New York.

Bronner is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Columbia Journalism School. He began his journalism career at Reuters in 1980, reporting from London, Madrid, Brussels and Jerusalem.

From 1985 to 1997, he worked for The Boston Globe. He started as a general assignment and urban affairs reporter. He went on to be the paper’s Supreme Court and legal affairs correspondent in Washington and then its Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem.

He then accepted a position with The New York Times, where he was the paper’s national education correspondent from 1997 to 1999 and its education editor from 1999 to 2001.

Bronner is the author of “Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America” (Norton, 1989), which was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 best books of 1989.

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.