Biz reporter Cheng joins VC firm Initialized Capital as head of content

Candy Cheng sits for a photograph in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Friday, November 9, 2018. Photographer: David Paul Morris

Venture capital firm Initialized Capital has hired business journalist Candy Cheng as head of content.

Cheng was most recently a Business Insider senior correspondent covering venture capital and tech startups.

She previously was an executive producer of “Bloomberg Studio 1.0,” Bloomberg Television’s long-form interview series.

At Bloomberg Television, she was also the head of technology interviews, regularly booking top tech executives, investors, entrepreneurs, and other newsmakers for Bloomberg Media Group, including Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, and Quibi CEO Meg Whitman, among others.

In her time at Bloomberg, she helped launch several TV news programs, including “Lunch Money,” “Bloomberg West,” “Studio 1.0” and “Bloomberg Technology.” She also spearheaded Bloomberg TV’s coverage of major technology IPOs including Facebook, Alibaba, and Uber.

Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2010, Cheng was a producer for CNBC’s “Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer.”

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.