Bloomberg taps Phartiyal as South Asia tech reporter

Sankalp Phartiyal

Bloomberg News reporter Sankalp Phartiyal is now its South Asia tech reporter, based in New Delhi.

His beat is expanding to cover India’s fledgling startup and e-ecommerce sector. Phartiyal has been with Bloomberg since March 2022.

Phartiyal previously was with Reuters for more than a decade, lastly in the Mumbai bureau as tech, media, telecom correspondent on its company news team.

Sankalp joined the Reuters Delhi bureau in 2015, reporting on the commodity patch, while tracking the crucial monsoon rains in Asia’s third-largest economy.

He was previously with the Reuters online team in Delhi, bolstering the India website’s business coverage since 2011, after graduating from the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai.

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.