Bloomberg BNA reporter Alexander moving to BGOV

Madi Alexander

Madi Alexander, a data journalist for Bloomberg BNA is moving to a reporter role at Bloomberg Government.

At BNA, Alexander covers topics such as health care, pensions and campaign finance. At Bloomberg Government, she will cover elections and campaign finance.

She starts her new job on Oct. 30.

Alexander received her master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, where she specialized in data reporting. Her bachelor’s degree is in political science. She was the data intern for ProPublica and the digital intern for The New York Times. She also worked for IRE/NICAR in the database library.

During her journalism career, she has covered everything from state legislatures to the Pope to tractor pulls. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, CNN and more.

Her print work, videos and graphics have earned her almost 20 awards, at both professional and student levels.

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.