Bloomberg taps Ummelas to become Nordic team leader for government and economic news

Ott Ummelas

Bloomberg News reporter Ott Ummelas has been named Nordic team leader for government and economic news.

He will be based in Oslo, Norway.

Ummelas has been covering Estonia for Bloomberg News since 2007.

He previously was editor in chief of ETV24 online news in Estonia. He also worked at Reuters, covering Estonia and Finland, and was also head of Finnish 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.