Bloomberg’s Blas moving to Bloomberg Opinion

Bloomberg News chief energy correspondent Javier Blas will be moving to Bloomberg Opinion in 2022.

He will write about energy and commodities.

Blas joined Bloomberg in 2015 and is the co-author of “The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources.” He previously was Africa editor at the FT for the past 18 months, based in London.

Before that, he was commodities editor and a commodities correspondent. He managed the oil and commodities coverage of the Financial Times with correspondents and reporters in London and New York. He also launched the annual FT Global Commodities Summit, the largest gathering of C-suite executives in the commodities trading sector.

Blas previously worked for Expansion, a Spanish-based business publication.

He is a graduate of the University of Navarra.

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.