Reuters names Azhari deputy bureau chief for Lebanon, Syria and Jordan

Timour Azhari

Reuters has named Timour Azhari as deputy bureau chief for Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, based in Beirut.

Azhari has been a reporter in Lebanon for the Thomson Reuters Foundation for the past nine months.

He previously was with Al Jazeera English as a correspondent in Beirut. And he also worked for the Lebanese Oil and Gas Initiative as a newsletter writer and editor.

Azhari was also a reporter for The Daily Star for two years. He holds a bachelor’s degree from American University of Beirut.

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.