Semafor hires Sergie as editor of Gulf edition

Mohammed Sergie

Semafor has hired Mohammed Sergie to be editor of its new Gulf edition.

He was previously an editor at Bloomberg News where he shaped coverage of energy and commodities in the region and was the company’s sole reporter in Qatar.

Prior to Bloomberg, he was a senior writer/editor at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he wrote about diverse topics such as currency crises, the Northern Ireland peace process, and Islam’s sectarian divide. He reported extensively from rebel-controlled territories in Syria in 2013.

Sergie covered private equity deals for Dow Jones in New York and established a bureau for the news service and The Wall Street Journal in Saudi Arabia.

He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in political science and has a master’s in economics from Fordham 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.