Vice hires two business journalists

Nellie Bowles

Vice, whose editorial operations are being run by former Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel, has hired two business journalists.

Tech reporter Nellie Bowles has joined Vice from The Guardian and will run its San Francisco bureau.

She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle and Recode. She studied at Columbia University, receiving degrees in comparative literature and psychology, magna cum laude and a Rhodes finalist, before completing a Fulbright Fellowship in Swaziland.

Roberto A. Ferdman has joined Vice as an economics correspondent from the Washington Post.

At the Post, Ferdman was a reporter for Wonkblog covering food, economics, and other things. He was previously a staff writer at Quartz. He’s half Argentine, half Iranian, was born in Boston, but raised in Puerto Rico.

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.