Yokoyama moves to economy beat in Japan for Bloomberg

Erica Yokoyama

Erica Yokoyama is now an economy reporter for Bloomberg News in Tokyo.

She had been a breaking news editor for Bloomberg for the past three years.

Yokoyama was a translator for AFP and is vice president of the Asian American Journalism Association’s Tokyo chapter.

Yokoyama holds a bachelor’s degree from Kyoto University and a master’s degree from the University of Oxford.

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.