Brian Bremner, currently assistant managing editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, will become managing editor for enterprise for Bloomberg News in Asia.
In his new role, Bremner will work with the beat reporting teams to develop stories out of this dynamic region that will run on the terminal, in Businessweek and on the web.
At Businessweek, Bremner was assistant managing editor of news and edited the Opening Remarks feature. He spent 15 years in Asia, with stints in Tokyo and Hong Kong, and won the 1998 Overseas Press Club of America’s Morton Frank Award for coverage of the Asian Financial Crisis and the Society of Professional Journalists 2006 Deadline Club Award as part of a team that produced a special issue on China and India.
Brian is co-author of “Hello Kitty: The Remarkable Story of Sanrio and the Billion Dollar Feline Phenomenon” published in 2004 by John Wiley.
He will be based in Tokyo and will be moving there later this summer with his family after spending July in the newsroom in New York.