WSJ’s Moscow bureau chief leaves for Bloomberg

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.

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.