Cory Johnson

Cory Johnson is an anchor and reporter at Bloomberg Television.

Based in San Francisco, Johnson covers technology, entrepreneurs, the media and investing.

Johnson brings significant experience in finance as well as investigative journalism. Prior to joining Bloomberg Television in October 2010, Johnson was a hedge fund manager and private investor.As a portfolio manager at Kingsford Capital Management and an analyst at Cannell Capital LLC, he focused on value investing, short selling, forensic accounting and covering neglected equities in technology, industrials, oil and gas and other sectors.

Prior to his work in finance, Johnson served as CNBC's first-ever Silicon Valley correspondent, where he covered the H-P/Compaq merger, Google's IPO and fraud investigations at Global Crossing, Tenant Healthcare and Worldcom. Before joining CNBC in 2001, Johnson served for over ten years as a magazine writer and editor, covering technology, sports, pop culture and business. He was a founding reporter for TheStreet.com and founded TheStreet.com's West Coast Bureau. Additionally, Johnson served as a writer-reporter at TIME Inc., a senior editor at Vibe magazine and founded the hip hop basketball magazine SLAM. He was featured in Houghton Miflin's "The Best American Sportswriters."

Johnson received his undergraduate degree from New York University and is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors.