Bloomberg hires Carlson to cover EVs

Kara Carlson

Bloomberg News has hired Kara Carlson to cover electronic vehicles, including Tesla.

She will be based in Austin.

She has been with The Austin American-Statesman covering technology, software and startups since 2019.

Carlson interned on the Dallas Morning News business news desk. She is a two-time graduate of Arizona State’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

She has also interned at Reuters, Phoenix Business Journal, The Seattle Times, The Arizona Republic, The Orange County Register, and Foodbeast.com.

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.