Editor Hughes leaves Bloomberg for Bloomberg BNA

John Hughes

John Hughes, an editor for Bloomberg News’ First Word service, is leaving that spot to become an editor at Bloomberg BNA.

Hughes will be a senior editor on the technology and privacy team.

Hughes has been with Bloomberg since December 2000, first as an auto and transportation reporter. He joined the First Word service in 2010 as an editor for First Word DC, a real-time news and analysis feed about U.S. government, politics and companies.

He’s a past president of the National Press Club and also spent four years with the Associated Press in its Detroit and Washington bureaus.

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.