Bloomberg hires Weeks as a senior editor

Ryan Weeks

Bloomberg News has hired Ryan Weeks as a senior editor, focused on cryptocurrency news in Asia.

He starts on Monday and will be based in Kuala Lumpur.

Weeks is deals editor at the The Block, focused on fundraising, M&A and institutional trends in the crypto space, among other things.

He previously worked at Financial News, Dow Jones as a fintech correspondent in London. Prior to that, he wrote for several different publications, including Sifted, AltFi and Wired.

Weeks is a graduate of Newcastle 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.