Bloomberg hires Averbuch to cover Mexican economy and government

Maya Averbuch

Maya Averbuch (photo by Elaine Cromie)

Bloomberg News has hired reporter Maya Averbuch to cover economy and government stories from Mexico City.

She previously had been freelancing for Bloomberg since January 2020.

Averbuch has been in Mexico since 2016 and has been freelancing for other publications, covering immigration and politics, with stories in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, Guernica, Wired, and Univision.

She is a graduate of Yale University in humanities. While at Yale, she was a senior editor for the Yale Literary Magazine.

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.