Bloomberg hires Waldron in Brazil

Travis Waldron

Bloomberg News has hired Travis Waldron to be an editor on its politics and economy desk in Brasilia.

He has been a HuffPost enterprise politics reporter based in Washington. He covered general politics and culture in the United States and Brazil, and also writes about issues at the intersection of sports, politics and culture. He was at HuffPost for seven and a half years.

Previously he covered politics, economics, and sports at ThinkProgress, and his work has appeared at The Atlantic, Columbia Journalism Review, and various newspapers.

Waldron is a graduate of the University of Kentucky.

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.