Bloomberg reporter Rockeman departs for grad school

Olivia Rockeman

Bloomberg News reporter Olivia Rockeman has left the news organization to attend graduate school at The New School.

She has covered U.S. economy beat and retailers including Home Depot, Lowe’s, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Victoria’s Secret, and Levi’s, as well as smaller brands like Warby Parker and Allbirds. I

Rockeman a rotational reporter before joining the economy team in June 2020.

She’s originally from San Diego and studied economics at the University of California, Davis.

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.