Shelly Banjo is the managing editor for global business news in the Americas at Bloomberg News, overseeing coverage of the world's largest companies including Walmart, Starbucks, Pfizer, General Motors and Tesla. 

Previously, she was Bloomberg's New York Bureau Chief, overseeing 1,000 journalists at the company’s world headquarters and Bloomberg’s coverage of New York and the tristate area. Before that, she was a Senior Writer on Bloomberg’s Tech team in Hong Kong and New York, where she wrote extensively about the US-China tech war, Hong Kong anti-government protests, and TikTok -- the subject of her award-winning podcast "Foundering: The TikTok Story." She was also a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. 

Before joining Bloomberg, she spent eight years at The Wall Street Journal writing about retail, e-commerce, and finance.

A native Texan, she lives with her husband and two sons in New York, where she is on the board of the Brooklyn Children's Museum. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and has an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business.