Bloomberg hires new media reporter

Edmund Lee, a reporter for Advertising Age, has been hired by Bloomberg News.

Lee posted on Twitter that he will be covering companies such as News Corp., Time Warner and Viacom. He’s been covering media for Ad Age.

Lee, who graduated from New York University in 1994, has been with Ad Age for the past 17 months. Before that, he was a freelance writer and also took a stab at screenwriting. His one movie script was made and shown at Tribeca.

Lee also spent three years at Conde Nast as a features editor at Women’s Wear Daily, and managing editor for three years at Community Connect Inc. He also worked for the Village Voice.

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.