Wessels, formerly with Bloomberg, named Finance Media managing director

Vernon Wessels

Vernon Wessels, a former editor for Bloomberg News in South Africa, has been named managing director of Finance Media in Johannesburg.

Wessels had been with Bloomberg for nearly 17 years before leaving earlier this year. He was South Africa bureau chief from 2010 to 2012 and Africa emerging markets team leader from 2012 to 2016. For the last five years, he had been Africa and Middle East finance editor.

He previously worked as markets editor for Business Report in South Africa. He was also a reporter for I-Net Bridge and for the Pretoria News.

He is a graduate of Tshwane University of Technology.

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.