Somasekhar to cover US crude markets for Reuters

Arathy Somasekhar

Reuters has moved Arathy Somasekhar to Houston to cover U.S. crude markets.

She has previously been in India leading a team of six reporters covering energy, mining and agriculture companies. Before that, Somasekhar was a senior correspondent for Europe, Middle East and Asia companies news for Reuters.

Somasekhar also covered U.S. and Canada energy, mining, agriculture and chemical companies. She has been with Reuters since June 2014.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Christ University in Bangalore.

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.