WSJ hires Bloomberg’s Martinez to run internship program

Andres Martinez

The Wall Street Journal has hired Andres Martinez from Bloomberg News to be a senior editor running its internship program.

He will start April 6.

Martinez has been in New York for Bloomberg for the past year as part of its news training team, working with new hires, reporters and editors in the United States and interns. He previously was the Argentina bureau chief.

Martinez has been covering Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Throughout his career in Bloomberg, Martínez has reported from more than a dozen countries in four continents.

Prior to moving to Argentina, he was Bloomberg’s bureau chief for West Africa from 2013 to 2016, based in Ghana, where he was responsible for the coverage of more than a dozen countries. Previously, from 2011 to 2013 he covered southern Africa’s governments and economy from the Johannesburg bureau in South Africa.

Martínez joined Bloomberg in 2007 in Mexico City, where he covered the state-oil company, the mining sector, as well as general news and markets.

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.