Bloomberg reporter Donnan to cover pandemic’s impact

Shawn Donnan

Bloomberg News economics reporter Shawn Donnan is now covering the impact of the pandemic on consumers.

He will focus on how people in the U.S. and around the world are emerging from this economic crisis, having had their lives and livelihoods reshaped.

He previously was covering world trade and globalization, based in Washington. He worked alongside other Bloomberg journalists on coverage of NAFTA and trade with China, among other subjects.

Donnan joined Bloomberg in 2018 after being at the Financial Times since 2002 where he served as a world trade editor. Prior to that, he was the newspaper’s world news editor and also reported and edited in Hong Kong and Indonesia.

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.