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How Emily Chang got to Bloomberg Television

A.J. Katz of TVNewser.com interviewed Bloomberg Television anchor Emily Chang about her career.

Here is an excerpt:

TVNewser: Thanks for taking the time, Emily. Talk to us about your career path.

Chang: In college, I got an internship at my local station in Honolulu one summer, and I just fell in love with broadcast news, reporting and storytelling. After college, I started out at NBC and I worked behind the scenes at Today and Dateline. I got my first on-air job in Birmingham, Alabama! I was covering house fires, public schools, homicides and football. It was awesome. I had never lived in the Deep South before and I got to meet such amazing people. The newsroom was filled with amazing, young, hungry people. Then, I went back to Hawaii and I reported there for a while. Later, I went to San Diego, and then London where I reported for CNN. In 2008, CNN asked if I wanted to move to China to cover the Olympics. I moved to Beijing and it was an incredible ride. It was the debut of China on the world stage, and I got to travel across the country. During my time in China, Bloomberg got in touch and asked if I wanted to help launch a show in San Francisco, covering technology and Silicon Valley. At the time, it would have been the only daily news show covering tech. I didn’t really know a lot about tech to be honest, and it was a steep learning curve but I managed to pick it up fast. The experience has been incredible. I get to talk to some of the most interesting people in the world, people who are changing the world or trying to change it.

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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.

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