Bloomberg hires WSJ’s Wilkes to cover energy in Germany

Bill Wilkes

Wall Street Journal reporter Bill Wilkes has been hired by Bloomberg News to cover the Germany energy, renewables and climate change beat.

He started at Bloomberg on Monday.

Wilkes has been with The Journal in Germany since December 2015, and for the past year he has been covering politics, foreign policy, domestic extremism, China in Europe and other news.

Before joining The Journal, Wilkes worked at Market News International, first as a UK economics correspondent and then as a European economics correspondent, covering the Eurozone and Switzerland. He often covered U.S. and Japanese policymakers when they passed through Europe.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in German and Italian from University College London.

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.