Reuters hires WSJ’s Iosebashvili to be an editor

Ira Iosebashvili

Reuters has hired Wall Street Journal reporter Ira Iosebashvili to be an editor on its U.S. markets team.

He starts Monday.

He has been a foreign exchange and commodities reporter for The Journal since August 2012. Before that, Iosebashvili covered the economy for three years for the paper.

In that job, he covered the Russian ruble, oil prices, and Kremlin policy that frequently moved asset prices and were widely reproduced by competitors. He also covered the actions of the Central Bank, Finance Ministry, and State State Statistics Service.

Iosebashvili previously worked at The Moscow Times.

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.