Bloomberg hires Thompson to be audience engagement editor for tech

Zia Thompson

Bloomberg News has hired Zia Thompson to be audience engagement editor for its technology coverage.

She will start later this month.

Thompson has been an audience engagement editor at BuzzFeed News and director of social media and a content creator at Caged Bird Magazine.

She is a graduate of Howard 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.