NY Times Fed reporter Smialek to become Brussels bureau chief

Jeanna Smialek, the Federal Reserve reporter for The New York Times, has been tapped to be its new Brussels bureau chief.

She will cover the European Union, immigration, trade and security issues. Smialek will start in January.

Smialek has been with The Times since 2019. She had previously been at Bloomberg since January 2013 and previously interned for Bloomberg in 2012.

She is the author of a book about the changing role of the modern Fed called “Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on A New Age of Crisis.”

Smialek is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate and holds an MBA from New York University.

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.