Bloomberg hires FT’s Manson to cover cybersecurity

Bloomberg News has hired Financial Times reporter Katrina Manson to cover cybersecurity.

She will be based in Washington.

Manson has been covering U.S. foreign policy, defense and intelligence for the Financial Times. Flying with the Pentagon, she has visited Afghanistan, the Munich Security Conference, San Diego’s Navy Seals base and glimpsed North Korea. She takes particular interest in U.S.-China competition.

She was previously the FT’s East Africa correspondent in Kenya for five years, and before that based in DR Congo, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso.

She won the 2016 FT award for outstanding reporting in international affairs by a journalist under 40.

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.