Africa bureau chief Cropley joining Reuters Breakingviews

Ed Cropley

Edward Cropley, Africa bureau chief for Reuters, is joining Reuters Breakingviews in August.

Cropley has been the Africa bureau chief based in Johannesburg since January 2016.

Before that, he was bureau chief in southern Africa in charge of Reuters editorial operations for South Africa and the other nine countries in the southern Africa region.

Cropley holds a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge.

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.