Bloomberg hires Caldwell to cover immigation

Alicia A. Caldwell

Bloomberg News has hired Alicia Caldwell to cover immigration.

She will start in January.

Caldwell covered immigration for The Wall Street Journal, with a focus on everything from border security to the impacts of immigration inside the U.S. She joined the Journal from the Associated Press in August 2017.

She has reported on immigration since 2005, starting at the border in El Paso, Texas, before moving to Washington and now Los Angeles. She started her career as a crime reporter in Philadelphia and later Orlando.

Caldwell is a graduate of the University of Arizona and also earned a master’s degree in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State 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.