Handlesblatt hires Hanke Vela as Brussels bureau chief

Jakob Hanke Vela

Handlesblatt has hired Jakob Hanke Vela as its Brussels bureau chief.

He will start Jan. 1.

Hanke Vela is Brussels Playbook Writer for Politico. Prior to joining Politico, he was at the Axel Springer Academy in Berlin, where he worked for the dailies Die Welt and Bild and led a team of eight young journalists to attract five million readers a month to a new online magazine for young people.

Hanke Vela studied economics and philosophy at Humboldt University and was a scholar of the Studienstiftung. During his studies, he worked as a producer for the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

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.