Bloomberg hires Tam from Wall Street Journal

Pui-Wing Tam, the former deputy bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau, will join Bloomberg next month as the Team Leader running Silicon Valley tech coverage, succeeding Tom Giles.

Pui-Wing has broad knowledge of Silicon Valley companies, consumer electronics, venture capital and business technology. She was the first to report the ouster of Carly Fiorina by the Hewlett-Packard board and then found herself pre-texted by the board as it tried to uncover leaks. She will lead Bloomberg’s West Coast technology reporters who contribute across all platforms, from the terminal to Bloomberg Businessweek, television to Bloomberg.com.

Tam joined Dow Jones & Co. in 1995 as a staff reporter for The Asian Wall Street Journal, and subsequently joined the staff of The Journal in 1998. Before joining Dow Jones, Tam interned at the Economist and at New York Newsday in 1994.

In 1998, Tam was part of a team of Journal reporters that won an Overseas Press Club Award in 1998 for its coverage of Asian financial crisis, and won the TJFR 30 under 30 in 1998 and 1999.

Born in Hong Kong, Tam received a bachelor’s degree, with honors, from Oxford University, and a master’s degree from Columbia University.

Pui-Wing will report to Giles, who will move to New York to become managing editor of U.S. company news.