FedScoop hires Bloomberg Industry’s Alder to cover tech

Madison Alder

FedScoop has hired Madison Alder as a technology reporter.

Alder has been at Bloomberg Industry Group, where she was a reporter covering the judiciary. During her time on that beat, she broke news about judicial nominations, and in early 2021 was was the first journalist to reveal details of a cyberattack that hit the U.S. Federal Court System.

She also covered employee benefits and health care for Bloomberg Industry.

She is a graduate of The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University with a degree in journalism, a minor in political science and a certificate in socio-legal studies.

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.