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Hughes to join Bloomberg Gadfly

Chris Hughes, former financial editor for The Independent in London, is joining Bloomberg Gadfly.

Hughes had most recently been with a public relations firm, which he joined a year ago from Reuters where he had been EMEA Editor of Breakingviews since 2012.

Domonic Ponsford of the Press Gazette writes, “Hughes has also previously worked at Breaking Views and the Financial Times.

“Launched in November 2015, Gadfly is an expansion of financial newswire Bloomberg’s View opinion section. Hughes joins an EMEA team that includes Leila Abboud covering tech, Chris Bryant covering industrials, Andrea Felsted covering retail, Lionel Laurent on finance/markets and Duncan Mavin covering finance and hedge funds.”

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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.

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