Bloomberg hires Tong as Asia pharma reporter

Bloomberg News has hired Amber Tong as an Asia pharmaceuticals reporter based in Hong Kong.

She previously was an Endpoints News senior editor.

In addition to writing on the biggest scientific and business updates of the day, she steered coverage decisions for the newsroom and set the agenda before the U.S. and Europe are awake. She has a particular focus on oncology, and how technologies developed for cancer are being used in other diseases.

Tong is a graduate of Rice University with a degree in anthropology.

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.