Globe and Mail M&A reporter Jones moving to energy beat

Jeff Jones

Jeff Jones, who has been covering mergers and acquisitions for The Globe and Mail in Toronto, is moving to a new beat.

Jones will now cover green finance, investing, ESG and things related to the energy transition.

Before joining The Globe and Mail in 2013, he was a senior reporter for Reuters, writing news, features and analysis on energy deals, pipelines, politics and general topics. He also worked for Oilweek in Calgary.

Jones won a 2019 SABEW Canada Best In Business Gold award for his scoop on CannTrust Holdings’ deception on growing cannabis plants in unlicensed rooms.

He also won a 2018 National Newspaper Award, SABEW Best in Business Gold, and Digital Publishing Award as part of a Globe and Mail team that produced Hustle in the Oil Patch, an investigation into the crisis of underfunded environmental liabilities in Canada’s oil industry.

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.