Bloomberg hires Schaefer as new German bureau chief

Daniel Schaefer

Bloomberg News has hired Daniel Schaefer as its new German bureau chief.

Schaefer joins Bloomberg from Handelsblatt, where for the last three years he ran financial coverage, managed the Frankfurt office and moderated major events.

His career has spanned the English and German-speaking media world, starting in 1997 at the news agency Reuters. Schaefer has worked for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Financial Times before joining Handelsblatt at the start of 2015.

He studied politics, international relations, communications and economics at the universities of Kent in England and Hohenheim near Stuttgart in Germany.

Schaefer, who starts his new role later this year, will be based in Frankfurt and manage a staff of 55 journalists in Frankfurt, Berlin and Munich.

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.