Bloomberg hires Tamo to be breaking news editor

Omar Tamo

Bloomberg News has hired Omar Tamo to be a breaking news editor in the Middle East.

He will be based in Abu Dhabi and mainly cover financial news in the Middle East. Tamo starts next month.

Tamo is a currently business writer at Forbes Middle East, covering the latest financial and economic news in the region. He previously reported on developments related to Lebanon’s economic and political systems.

He also worked for more than five years in the foreign exchange market in Lebanon.

Tamo is a graduate of the American University of Science and Technology.

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.