Smith hired by Bloomberg as European finance editor

Geoffrey Smith

Geoffrey Smith has been hired by Bloomberg News as its Europe finance editor.

On LinkedIn, Smith wrote, “It’s a THIRD tour of duty for me in Frankfurt, having watched the euro be created, and very nearly fall apart, in the previous two…which way is the pendulum going to swing this time?”

Smith had most recently been at Fortune, where he was Europe news editor in London.

From June 2009 to 2014, Smith worked at Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal in various European locations, reporting on European macroeconomics and financial regulation, as well as the Eurozone.

He was also the Russia bureau chief from February 2002 to October 2007 for Dow Jones Newswires.

Smith holds a degree in modern languages from the University of Oxford.

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.