Casey named leader of Bloomberg energy coverage in Americas

Simon Casey

Simon Casey has been named the leader of Bloomberg’s energy coverage in the Americas.

He has been the agricultural team leader. James Attwood, who had been leading metals and mining coverage, is taking over the agriculture team.

Casey had been leading agriculture coverage since June 2015. Before that, he spent five years overseeing commodities coverage, including mining, metals, chemicals, agriculture and fertilizers. Some of the companies included Alcoa, Archer-Daniels-Midland, Barrick Gold and Cargill.

Before that, he oversaw commodities covering in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He joined Bloomberg in 2003 as a commodities reporter.

Casey spent four years as an online editor and deputy editor of Metal Bulletin.

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.