Reuters hires Griffin to report from Colombia

Oliver Griffin

Reuters has hired Dow Jones reporter Oliver Griffin to report from Colombia.

He will start next month.

Griffin is a mining and energy reporter for Dow Jones in Barcelona. Before that, he covered stories as a freelancer in Latin America and South America, including Pablo Escobar’s rampaging hippos and free speech in Honduras.

His stories appeared in Reuters, the i Newspaper, The Daily Telegraph and The New York Times.

He previously worked for economia in London.

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.