Bloomberg hires Lopez to cover California policy issues

Nadia Lopez

Bloomberg News has hired Nadia Lopez to cover California policy stories about the environment, politics, energy, health and other topics.

For the past year, she has been a reporter at CalMatters covering environment and climate policy, focusing on the state’s major goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Lopez previously was a reporter covering the central San Joaquin Valley’s Latino community at The Fresno Bee.

She was also a corps member at Report for America and has covered politics, the housing crisis, the homelessness epidemic and top policy issues for the San Jose Spotlight. There, she also covered elections, climate change and immigration.

Lopez graduated from San Francisco 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.