Mayes to cover British Treasury for Bloomberg News

Joe Mayes

Joe Mayes is switching beats and is now covering political stories out of the British Treasury.

He replaces Alex Morales, who is now an editor at Bloomberg.

He has been covering Brexit and corporate finance since joining Bloomberg in June 2016.

He has previously written for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Northern Echo. He also worked as a fixer for Al-Jazeera in Paris and the BBC and ITV in Jersey.

Mayes holds an MA in journalism and international development from Sciences Po, Paris and a first-class BA in philosophy, politics and economics from Durham 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.