Bloomberg’s Bartenstein moving to Middle East team

Bloomberg News reporter Ben Bartenstein is moving to its Middle East team.

He has been an emerging markets reporter and editor based in New York since June 2018.

Before that, Bartenstein was a reporter in Latin America based in Lima, Peru, where he reported on Venezuela’s economic and humanitarian crisis. He was also a Latin American markets reporter based in New York.

“Grateful for these past five years covering the Americas, a region that will remain on my radar from afar,” he wrote on Twitter.

Bartenstein is a graduate of Macalaster College.

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.