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WSJ reporter Kantchev moves to Middle East beat

Georgi Kantchev

Wall Street Journal reporter Georgi Kantchev is now covering the Middle East, focused on the intersection of geopolitics, economics and energy.

He has been in the Berlin bureau for the past five years.

Kantchev been in Moscow since May 2019. He previously was in the London bureau since December 2014 covering financial markets. Kantchev was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award in 2016.

He previously worked as a freelance reporter for The Economist and The New York Times. His work has also appeared in Foreign Policy, VICE, National Post (Canada) and Deutsche Welle (Germany), among others.

Kantchev is a graduate of the University of Vienna and the University of Westminster.

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.

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