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Deputy ME van der Walt departing Bloomberg

Bloomberg News deputy managing editor Eddie van der Walt is leaving the news organization after nine years.

He has been on the Markets Live team covering global financial markets with a focus on commodities in London.

Before Bloomberg, van der Walt was a markets reporter for ICIS Heren, covering natural gas. He also worked at FastMarkets Ltd. as an editor on the bullion desk.

van der Walt holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of the Free State in South Africa.

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.

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