Bloomberg hires Yian as economy and government reporter

Lee Yian

Bloomberg News has hired Lee Yian as an economy and government reporter in Taiwan.

He will start next week.

Yian is currently an investigative reporter for The Reporter Media Foundation in Taipei City. He previously worked for Initium Media. He started his career as an investigative journalist in 2018, mainly covering environmental and agricultural topics focusing on their implications on domestic or international politics.

His report on the trade wars between Beijing and Taipei on agricultural products was a finalist for the SOPA editorial award of Excellence in Business Reporting.

Yian holds a bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan 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.