Longtime Reuters bureau chief and correspondent Baker has left

Luke Baker

Luke Baker, who has been at Reuters for 23 years and was the bureau chief in Paris, Brussels and Jerusalem, has left the news organization.

Since September 2019, he has been an international affairs correspondent based on London.

Baker was the Paris bureau chief from September 2017 to September 2019, leading more than 120 people, including 40 that worked on its French language service. He previously spent more than three years as the Jerusalem bureau chief and nearly five years as the Brussels bureau chief.

He started at Reuters as a correspondent in Africa and also worked in Iraq and Italy.

Baker is the author of “Dateline Baghdad.”

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.