Bloomberg Opinion hires Thorbecke to cover Asia tech

Catherine Thornecke

Bloomberg Opinion has hired Catherine Thorbecke as a columnist covering Asia technology.

She will be based in Tokyo.

Thorbecke is currently a writer for CNN Business covering the wide-ranging impacts of technology and innovation on our society and culture.

Thorbecke joined CNN after more than six years at ABC News, where she held various roles and most-recently helmed the network’s digital coverage of business and technology news. She also worked at ABC’s flagship morning show “Good Morning America” and was part of the team that was awarded back-to-back Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Morning Program in 2016 and 2017.

Outside of business and technology, she has also covered issues impacting the Asian American community and is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association.

Thorbecke is a graduate of New York University and currently based in New York City.

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.