Categories: OLD Media Moves

Bloomberg hires Pfanner from WSJ

Bloomberg has hired the Wall Street Journal’s Eric Pfanner to help shape its coverage of U.K. business, reports Alex Spence of Politico.

Spence writes, “Pfanner was a senior corporate correspondent at the WSJ, based in Japan. He was previously at the New York Times and International Herald Tribune.

“As an editor in Bloomberg’s London office, Pfanner will help steer coverage of global business issues, ‘inserting a broader perspective and working across different teams in London and beyond,’ Benedikt Kammel, the managing editor of global business news Europe, said in a message to staff Friday morning.

“He will also help out on coverage of the telecoms sector in Britain until Bloomberg finds a reporter to fill a vacancy on the beat, Kammel 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.