Melissa Long

Melissa Long is a reporter for Bloomberg Television, providing coverage of business news, market activity and economic affairs from Bloomberg Television's studios in New York.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Long served as an anchor and reporter with CNN, HLN and CNN.com, where she contributed to coverage of the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

Long reported on the major debates from the campaign trail as well as the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and President Barack Obama's inauguration.

Earlier in her career, Long served as an anchor and reporter for television stations in Rochester, Syracuse and Utica, New York. While in Rochester, she was an adjunct communications professor at St. John Fisher College and additionally wrote a personal finance column in the local paper.

Long was awarded international journalism fellowships from RIAS/RTNDA in Germany in 2000 and 2007 and she received the East-West Center journalism fellowship in China in 2002. Long has also earned awards from the New York Associated Press and the New York State Broadcasters Association for her reporting on heart disease, stress, substance abuse and development in the Adirondack Mountains. She received a Radio and Television News Directors Association Award (RTNDA) for a series of reports on mental illness.

Long graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University with a dual degree in journalism and policy studies and earned an MBA from the Simon School at the University of Rochester.