Categories: OLD Media Moves

AP names new European business editor

David McHugh, bureau chief forÂ the Associated PressÂ in Germany and Poland, will become the AP’s business editor for Europe at the beginning of next year, according to an AP styory.

The story stated, “McHugh succeeds Amy Finkelstein, who will become an editor for the business news department in New York after three years in London.

“McHugh joined the AP in Moscow in 2000 and transferred a year later to Frankfurt, where he led AP’s coverage of German business. He previously spent three years in Russia working for the English-language Moscow Times, where he served as news editor. He also worked at the Detroit Free Press from 1985 to 1997. Before that McHugh reported for the Macomb Daily in Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

“‘This is a great opportunity to work with a top-flight team of business writers and further develop our excellent European business report. More and more, the really big news out of Europe is the economic story,’ McHugh said.”

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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.