OLD Media Moves

Newcomer switches to tech and politics beat at Bloomberg

Eric Newcomer

Eric Newcomer, who covers Uber for Bloomberg News, is switching to the tech and politics beat for the news organization.

He joined Bloomberg in 2014. Newcomer joined from The Information, where he covered start-ups and venture capital and broke news including Amazon’s acquisition of Twitch. He will start at Bloomberg in late December.

Before moving to San Francisco, he covered D.C. City Hall for the Washington Examiner, where he wrote about the mayor’s budget, corruption scandals and city council races.

In the summer of 2012, he worked as a James Reston Reporting Fellow for the New York Times. He wrote about Bill de Blasio before it was cool, chased after a loose peacock in Queens and reported on a power company lockout negotiated by Gov. Cuomo.

Newcomer had internships at the Tampa Bay Times, the Sun Sentinel and his hometown newspaper, the Macon Telegraph.

At The Harvard Crimson, he won awards for investigative reporting for a four-part series on sexual assault at Harvard. He served as associate managing editor at the paper and graduated in 2012 with a degree in philosophy.

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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