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Bloomberg News names new Paris bureau chief

Geraldine Amiel, formerly a Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones news editor, has been named Paris bureau chief for Bloomberg News.

She will succeed and report to Vidya Root, Bloomberg’s managing editor for Western Europe.

Amiel has also worked at Agence France-Presse and CNBC Europe. At AFP, she served as deputy-head of the French economics department and as a correspondent covering international macro-economics, commodities and oil markets.

Amiel is a graduate of Université Panthéon Assas in Paris. She has been with the Journal since August 2006.

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.