BBC hires Marketplace’s Jamali as tech correspondent

Lily Jamali

BBC has hired Lily Jamali as its North America tech correspondent, based in San Francisco.

Jamali has been a senior reporter for “Marketplace” for the past three years. She was previously co-host of KQED’s “The California Report,” which aired on NPR stations throughout the state.

Prior to joining “The California Report,” Jamali was the anchor of “Bloomberg Markets: Canada,” where she steered editorial coverage for her hour-long daily news program covering financial markets, economics, and politics.

She also reported for Bloomberg News, coordinating with the editorial team to break stories on-air and writing enterprise stories focused on impacts of the Trump administration’s immigration policy on the Canadian economy.

Previously, Jamali worked as a reporter and producer for Reuters TV, covering tech, company news, and economics from both San Francisco and New York. In 2014, she was part of the Reuters team at the World Economic Forum in Davos and the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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.