Edwards named team leader for U.S. consumer coverage at Bloomberg

John Edwards

John Edwards has been named team leader for U.S. consumer coverage at Bloomberg News.

He will start his new job on July 1.

Edwards has been an editor on the global business editing team, focused on entertainment/media, and serving as a slot editor for the group.

He started with Bloomberg in 2017 as an editor on the European consumer/health team in Geneva.

Edwards previously held several editing positions with The Wall Street Journal in New York and London, from 2000 to 2017, culminating with deputy business editor for EMEA.

He previously worked at TheStreet.com, the Times of Trenton, NJ, Dow Jones Newswires and BNA.

Edwards is a graduate of Northwestern University.

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.