Bloomberg hires Hilton as breaking news editor in Japan

Sarah Hilton

Bloomberg News has hired Sarah Hilton to be a breaking news editor in Japan.

She has been at Rest of World as Asia editor covering Southeast Asia, Japan and the Koreas based in Tokyo.

Before that, Hilton was an assistant editor on the award-winning Big Story desk at Nikkei Asia. Before that, she held the post of staff writer and translator.

She has also worked as a researcher and then as a staff writer and researcher at Nikkei. In addition, her work has appeared in Cell, Pediatrics and The Urban List.

Hilton is a graduate of University of Sydney.

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.