Bloomberg hires FT’s Hancock to cover China economy

Tom Hancock

Bloomberg News has hired Tom Hancock as a senior reporter covering the China economy.

He is currently based in Hong Kong but will be moving to Beijing.

“Together with a great team in Beijing, I’ll be covering the impact of big economic trends on the livelihoods of China’s 1.4bn people, and China’s changing trade and investment relations with the world,” he wrote on LinkedIn.

Hancock has been at the Financial Times since December 2016 covering consumer and leisure industries in China. He also worked for Agence France-Presse for more than four years as a China and Mongolia correspondent.

Hancock holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge.

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.