Speciale named Swiss bureau chief for Bloomberg

Alessandro Speciale

Alessandro Speciale has been named the Switzerland bureau chief for Bloomberg News.

He is based in Zurich but also overseeing our Geneva office.

Before he was Rome bureau chief and a reporter in Frankfurt covering the European Central Bank and the German economy. He also was a Vatican correspondent for 7 years, working for several Italian and American media including Time magazine and Religion News Service.

Speciale also worked in radio and as TV producer for live segments and documentaries for Al Jazeera English, NBC and the BBC.

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.