Bloomberg hires Tanakasempipat to cover Thai business

Patpicha Tanakasempipat

Bloomberg News has hired Patpicha Tanakasempipat to cover business and politics in Thailand.

She will start at the end of May.Chu

She has been with Reuters since October 2016 in Bangkok reporting on Thai politics, technology, and commodities, with a focus on Thailand and Southeast Asia. She also has been exploring data-driven environmental and climate change reporting.

Before Reuters, Tanakasempipat interned at Reuters and at BK Magazine.

She is a graduate of Chulalongkorn University.

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.