Bloomberg expanding tech coverage

Neal Ungerleider of Fast Company reports that Bloomberg News is expanding its tech news coverage.

Undergleider writes, “Fast Companyhas learned that Bloomberg’s new tech vertical is scheduled to go live tomorrow, March 6, and will include several new blogs and original video content.

“Although the site is not yet publicly online, two of the blogs are already in soft launch: The creatively named Tech Blog and Tech Deals. Both blogs are edited by Marcus Chan, the San Francisco Chronicle‘s former business editor. Chan joined Bloomberg in the summer of 2011 and was part of a hiring spree that also included the Associated Press’ Jordan Robertson. Apart from the blogs, the tech vertical will also include original stories and video alongside content imported from Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Bloomberg TV.

“According to Chan, the Tech Deals blog will also contain a weekly ranking of the 60 wealthiest people in tech worldwide and a video feature where the readership can vote on the best user-submitted 30-second elevator pitch of the week. Content for the tech vertical will be overseen by Tom Giles, Bloomberg News’ U.S. Technology Team Leader. Giles told Fast Company that staff will include Bloomberg Businessweek, Businessweek.com, and Bloomberg TV contributors.

“Interestingly for New York-centric Bloomberg, the new tech sub-site is largely a West Coast operation. Content will largely be handled by the approximately 70 editors and writers in their San Francisco bureau. Video content for Bloomberg’s tech vertical will be closely tied to Bloomberg West, a television program which has been on the air since 2011.”

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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.