Bloomberg hires Solon for tech team in London

Olivia Solon

Olivia Solon has been hired by Bloomberg News to work on its tech team in London.

She will be writing and editing, working on features and investigative stories.

Solon has been on the tech investigations team at NBC News in San Francisco and London. Before NBC, she was a senior reporter at The Guardian reporting on Silicon Valley’s technology companies.

She was also an innovations editor at Bloomberg and has served as a tech editor at Mirror Online.

Solon has also worked as a news editor, associate editor and then as deputy editor at Wired U.K. She was also a reporter for Media and Marketing Magazine and then served as editor of Cream at C Squared.

Solon is a M.A. in journalism from Goldsmiths, University of London.

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.