Bloomberg Businessweek editor in chief Brad Stone sent out the following on Thursday:
Folks, some happy news: Chris Beam will be joining Bloomberg Businessweek full time on May 4 as senior writer based in New York, covering all things finance. He’ll be doing features, essays, newsletters, and podcasts about money—who has it, where it’s flowing, what its future might be. Just one recent example of his talent and interests: His timely and insightful cover story about the world that prediction markets have wrought.
Chris has been a familiar presence at the magazine for more than a decade. (Actually, his roots go back much further than that: His dad, Alex, was Businessweek’s Moscow bureau chief in the early 1980s.) He grew up in Newton, Mass. After graduating from Columbia in 2006, he got his first journalism job in DC, covering politics for Slate, then moved to Beijing to be China correspondent for the New Republic. Since moving back to the U.S. he’s written for The Atlantic, New York, the New York Times, and Wired. His range has been amazing. Among many other topics, he’s written about the children of China’s superrich, the agony of the crypto true believer, the AI detection arms race, the battle over Ayn Rand’s estate, and the “Japanese Beethoven” who turned out to be a fraud. He speaks Chinese, is attempting to learn jiu-jitsu, and once went to summer camp with our colleague Zeke Faux. He will report to Jim Aley.
Please join us in congratulating him,<
Brad and Jim
