Cooper now covering state and local taxes for Bloomberg Law

Perry Cooper

Bloomberg Law journalist Perry Cooper is now covering state and local taxes.

She previously had been covering the federal circuit as senior legal editor.

Cooper also spent five years covering class action lawsuits and nearly three years covering toxics laws for Bloomberg Law.

She was previously a legal fellow at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Cooper holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, a master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a law degree from William & Mary.

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.