Bloomberg hires DeCloet as managing editor for Canada

Derek DeCloet

Derek DeCloet, executive editor and top business editor at The (Toronto) Globe and Mail, will be joining Bloomberg News as managing editor for Canada.

DeCloet replaces David Scanlan, who is moving to Singapore for Bloomberg.

Before returning to the Globe and Mail in 2016, DeCloet has been head of content for Rogers Media’s publishing arm, leading the editorial group that produces the company’s English-language print magazines and related websites and digital products.

Before moving to Rogers, Derek was at The Globe and Mail from 2003 until 2014 — first as a business reporter, then a columnist in Report on Business. In the summer of 2009, he became the ROB’s managing editor, then ROB editor three years later.

In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for business writing, one of five NMA nominations he has received for work done in Report on Business Magazine. He also won the Stanley McDowell prize for writing in 2008.

He is a graduate of Carleton University’s journalism program.

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.