Ghosh named Bloomberg’s Africa executive editor

Arijit Ghosh

Arijit Ghosh, the managing editor of South Asia for Bloomberg News, has been named Africa executive editor.

He replaces John McCorry, a longtime Bloomberg employee who is now senior editor in the markets editing hub.

Ghosh has been South Asia managing editor since September 2013. He previously was a bureau chief in Mumbai and Indonesia and has been with the company since June 2002.

Before Bloomberg, he was correspondent and anchor for CNBC/TV 18 in India.

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.