Reuters reporter Ismail moves to Baghdad bureau

Amina Ismail

Amina Ismail, a Reuters reporter in Egypt, has moved to its Baghdad bureau as a senior correspondent.

Ismail has been based in Cairo since April 2016.

She previously worked as a reporter for The New York Times and as a news assistant for The Wall Street Journal in Egypt. She also was a correspondent for McClatchy in the Middle East and Northern Africa for two years. She also was a freelancer for the Egypt Independent.

Ismail holds a bachelor’s degree from Modern Sciences and Arts University and a master’s degree from Northwestern University in video journalism.

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.