Bloomberg hires Kamisher as California reporter

Eliyahu Kamisher

Bloomberg News has hired Eliyahu Kamisher as a California reporter.

He has been the Bay Area News Group’s transportation reporter, writing for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. He got his start in journalism covering the Israeli police and then as a foreign correspondent for the German Press Agency.

Before joining The Mercury News, Kamisher worked as a freelancer with stories across California.

He graduated from Cal-Santa Barbara with a degree in political science and economics.

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.