Bloomberg’s Wallbank is moving to Singapore

Derek Wallbank

Bloomberg News journalist Derek Wallbank is moving to Singapore to be a senior editor for breaking news in Asia for the news organization.

Wallbank has worked for Bloomberg in Washington since June 2011.

“I have been blessed to work on the greatest breaking news desk in the history of them, with a better team than I’ve had any right to be part of,” wrote Wallbank on Twitter. “Bloomberg’s Washington bureau is top notch and I will miss it fiercely.”

He most recently ran the Washington breaking news desk for Bloomberg, directly supervising staff of more than a dozen in five cities in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific to provide real-time coverage of the White House, Congress, U.S. foreign policy, regulatory agencies and electoral politics.

Wallbank previously worked for MinnPost.com as its Washington correspondent and for Congressional Quarterly.

He is a Michigan State University graduate.

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.