Greg White, the Moscow bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, has left the paper for a job at Bloomberg.
White has joined Bloomberg as an enterprise editor as it expands coverage of emerging markets.
White joined Dow Jones & Co. in June 1991 as an editor with the AP/Dow Jones newswire. He opened the newswire’s Moscow bureau in August 1993. He transferred to the Detroit bureau of the Journal as a reporter in May 1998 and was named deputy bureau chief in Detroit in September 1999.
He moved back to Moscow, this time as bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, in April 2003. In 2009, White became the Wall Street Journal Russia Editor and the chief of the Wall Street Journal-Dow Jones Newswires joint Moscow Bureau.
Born in Cambridge, Mass., White attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., where he earned bachelor’s degrees in international politics and Russian/Soviet affairs. He has a master’s degree from the Columbia University School of International Affairs. While working toward his master’s degree, he served as a reporting intern in the Journal’s Moscow bureau. He is fluent in Russian.
