Bloomberg hires new Middle East anchor

Yousef Gamal El-Din has joined Bloomberg Television as the Dubai-based anchor of “Bloomberg Markets: Middle East.”

Gamal El-Din will co-anchor the hour-long program with Rishaad Salamat in Hong Kong and Anna Edwards in London. He will also be joined on air by Tracy Alloway, executive editor of Bloomberg Markets, who contributes to the program from Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Gamal El-Din has led coverage of global and regional financial stories for nearly a decade, having previously worked as a presenter and Middle East correspondent for CNBC and as a news anchor for Egyptian Television.

“Bloomberg Markets: Middle East” is also streamed live on Bloomberg.com, and available on the Bloomberg Terminal.

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.