Jeffers, Bloomberg deputy team leader, departs for Shell

Mike Jeffers

Mike Jeffers, deputy team leader for Americas oil trading coverage at Bloomberg News, has left the news organization.

Jeffers is joining Shell as a social investment advisor.

He had been at Bloomberg for six years. He previously was a reporter and deputy editor for Argus Media in Houston.

Jeffers holds a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern University and a master’s degree from the University of Texas. He was also an officer in the U.S. Air Force.

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.