Bloomberg names Trudell its global car czar

Craig Trudell

Bloomberg News has named Craig Trudell as its global car czar.

He will write, edit and commission big car stories across regions and across platforms, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg QuickTake.

For the past year, Trudell has been Europe automotive and industrial team leader at Bloomberg News, managing a team of reporters in Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Sweden.

Trudell joined Bloomberg in 2009 as a reporting intern on the transportation team, covering autos, railroads and airlines. He was then named banks/corporate bonds/stocks reporter. Later on, he became U.S. automotive reporter and then Asia automotive reporter and editor for the company.

After that, he was appointed U.S. automotive team leader managing a team of reporters in Detroit, San Francisco, New York and Chicago before being promoted to his most recent post.

Trudell was also a reporting intern with Automotive News.

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.