Bloomberg hires Horton to cover Taiwan markets

Chris Horton

Chris Horton has been hired by Bloomberg News to cover the Taiwan markets.

He will start on Monday.

Horton has been writing about Asia for two decades, covering topics including news, politics, business, travel, the environment, sports and the arts.

His writing has been published in The New York Times, Nikkei Asian Review, MIT Technology Review, Quartz, Financial Times, The Atlantic, ChinaFile and Fortune China.

He was China editor at Asia Times in 2003 and editor of China Economic Review magazine in 2004. In 2005 he founded GoKunming, one of China’s largest English-language city-specific websites.

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.