Longtime business journalist Adam Najberg has been named co-director of the Bloomberg global business journalism program at Tsinghua University in China.
He replaces Rick Dunham, who has held the role for more than a decade. Najberg is a managing director at Pingshu Pte. Ltd.
He previously was the digital editor for the Wall Street Journal in Asia, and had been with the company for 21 years. In his most-recent role at the Journal, Najberg oversaw digital growth for the paper’s English-language and local-language sites, blogs, translation services and videos in Asia.
He started his career with Dow Jones in 1994, serving as reporter and bureau chief for the Dow Jones Newswires. In 1999, he moved to Germany and served in several roles, including managing editor of Money & Economics. He moved back home to the U.S. in 2006, joining the Journal as operations editor for its website and then started up video operations.
He returned to Asia in 2010, helping launch editions in Korean and Bahasa Indonesia, in addition to building up and revamping other sites and digital properties in China, Japan and around the region.
Najberg, a graduate of Bowdoin College, has also been teaching at the University of Hong Kong.
