WSJ names Simons its energy editor in London

John Simons

Chip Cummins, the Europe business editor at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

I’m delighted to announce that John Simons will be headed to London to take on the role of London energy editor. He will lead our EMEA energy, mining and OPEC coverage, working with a team of reporters here, as well as energy-leaning correspondents and their chiefs around the world.
John is departing New York after a successful stint as deputy bureau chief for the management and careers bureau. Before that, he wrote and edited business stories for a wide range of publications, including Fortune, International Business Times and the Associated Press. He also did an earlier stint at the Journal, as an economic policy reporter.
He is a graduate of Northeastern University. As a longtime Manchester United fan, he looks forward to watching Saturday games that don’t start at 7 a.m. He is expected to land in London in mid-July. Please join me in welcoming John to his new role and new city.

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.