OLD Media Moves

Bloomberg tech reporter Lococo leaves for PR firm

June 23, 2015

Posted by Chris Roush

Edmond LococoBloomberg tech reporter Edmond Lococo has been hired by PR firm ICR as a senior vice president, based in Beijing.

Lococo was at Bloomberg News for 15 years, including two postings as a foreign correspondent in Beijing.

For the last five years, he covered the China technology beat and tracked topics such as computer hardware and software, mobile devices, startups, Internet, cyber security, social media and intellectual property. Previously, he followed the U.S. defense industry for Bloomberg during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Lococo began his journalism career in Hong Kong working for the South China Morning Post and Hong Kong Standard, before shifting to wire service reporting for Bridge News in Beijing.

Lococo received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Asian history and Chinese studies from the State University of New York, Albany.

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