Bloomberg hires Sykes as Middle East breaking news editor

Patrick Sykes

Bloomberg News has hired Patrick Sykes to be a breaking news editor for Middle East coverage.

He will focus on Iran and Turkey and will be based in London.

Sykes previously was a previously a senior energy market reporter for ICIS, also based in London. He had been at ICIS since October 2017.

He previously worked at The Times in London and The Daily Star in Beirut as a sub-editor.

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.