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Bloomberg auto editor Butters hired by Automotive News

Jamie Butters, the auto editor for Bloomberg News, has been hired as chief content officer of Automotive News.

Butters has been at Bloomberg for the past 10 years as an auto reporter and editor. As a reporter, he covered Fiat Chrysler US LLC, dealers and U.S. auto sales.

Before joining Bloomberg, he worked eight years for the Detroit Free Press as an auto reporter and as a business and auto editor.

Butters also worked three years at the Lexington Herald-Leader as a business reporter covering autos, manufacturing, economic development and other major industries.

He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky.

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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