Sharp, Bloomberg journalist in Asia, leaves after seven years

Andy Sharp

Andy Sharp, a reporter and editor for Bloomberg News in Asia for almost seven years, has left the news organization.

Sharp left for a senior role at a major Japanese news organization.

He joined Bloomberg in October 2011 covering the birth of Abenomics in the aftermath of the financial crisis and Japan’s massive tsunami and Fukushima meltdown. He then worked as a politics editor, with his main focus on Japan and the Koreas, notably the North Korean crisis.

He previously worked as a copy editor for Nikkei and as a translator.

Sharp holds a degree from Sheffield Hallam University.

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.