Dendrinou named Athens bureau chief for Bloomberg

Viktoria Dendrinou has been named Athens bureau chief for Bloomberg News.

She has been covering the U.S. Treasury and previously covered the European Union. She has written on topics ranging from the eurozone crisis to transatlantic trade wars, banking regulation and, more recently, Europe’s pandemic response.

Previously she worked for The Wall Street Journal as an EU correspondent and, in 2019, she co-authored a book on the Greek debt crisis, “The Last Bluff: How Greece Came Face-to-Face with Financial Catastrophe & the Secret Plan for Its Euro Exit.”

Before moving to Brussels, Dendrinou worked at Reuters Breakingviews in London and was a Nico Colchester Fellow at The Economist.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford and a master’s in economics from University College London. She was born and raised in Athens, Greece. She has also been a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.