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Animated video from Taiwan focuses on Bloomberg reporter suspension

An animated video from TomoNews in Taiwan takes up the issue of Bloomberg News suspending one of its reporters in Hong Kong for allegedly leaking that the company wasn’t publishing sensitive stories in China.

Michael Forsythe was suspended without pay.

TomoNews is a product of Next Media Animation, the Taiwan-based animation studio. In launching its U.S. website in August, the company said its news coverage “will animate the most talked-about WTF stories on the internet. The craziest, weirdest, most unexpected stories will get an additional twist with our animations and snarky personality. And finally, TomoNews will continue animating satire, bringing to viewers the unique brand of humor for which the Taiwanese Animators are known.”

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.