Bloomberg taps Edgerton to be Seattle bureau chief

Bloomberg News has named Anna Edgerton to be its Seattle bureau chief.

She has been national security reporter and covered tech policy. She previously was a deputy editor on the Congress team. She was also a Congress reporter at Bloomberg.

Edgerton has been at Bloomberg since January 2013. She previously worked at the Miami Herald, where she covered general assignment, working mostly on business, health, and religion stories.

She also worked in Brazil and Argentina as a reporter and translator.

Edgerton holds a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University and a master’s degree from Columbia 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.