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Bloomberg hires Pierre-Louis to cover climate

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Bloomberg News has hired Kendra Pierre-Louis as a climate reporter.

She has worked as senior climate reporter with the Gimlet/Spotify podcast How to Save a Planet, as a climate reporter with The New York Times and as a staff writer for Popular Science (PopSci) where she wrote about science, the environment, and, occasionally, mayonnaise.

In addition, her writing has appeared in FiveThirtyEightThe Washington Post, and Slate and is also the author of the book, “Green Washed: Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet.”

Pierre-Louis is a recipient of the 2022 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award. She received the gold award in the magazine category for her story “How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities in MIT Technology Review.

She has Masters’ in Science Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in Sustainable Development with a focus on Policy Analysis and Advocacy from the SIT Graduate Institute. She also has a B.A. in economics from Cornell 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.

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