Bloomberg hires Ma to cover clean tech

Michelle Ma

Bloomberg News has hired Michelle Ma as a reporter covering clean technology.

She started Monday but will be based in Los Angeles starting in mid June.

Ma will be part of the power weather climate and natural disasters team. Previously she was freelance writing about climate and technology, and before that Ma was a climate tech reporter at Protocol.

She also was a news editor of live journalism and special coverage at the Wall Street Journal.

Ma has a master’s degree in business and economics journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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.