Bloomberg hires Rea as associate editor

Alibhe Rea

Bloomberg News has hired Alibhe Rea as an associate editor in London covering politics and finance.

She has been the host of Politico’s “Westminster Insider” podcast.

Prior to working for Politico, Rea was political correspondent for the New Statesman in London, covering Westminster politics.

At the New Statesman, she was co-host of the New Statesman podcast, which won Politics Podcast of the Year at the Publisher Podcast Awards in 2021 and 2022.

She grew up in Belfast and holds an English and French degree from Oxford University. She appears regularly on TV and radio discussing British and Irish politics.

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.