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Bloomberg econ reporter to become the Perfect Anecdote

Alex Kowalski, an economics reporter for Bloomberg News in Washington, is leaving the wire service for graduate school in urban planning at Cal-Berkeley.

“I will focus on housing, community and economic development, topics that increasingly commanded my interests as I wrote more and more about the U.S. economy,” wrote Kowalski in an email to Talking Biz News.

“What happens next? I’m not sure, but I wouldn’t mind, for a change, producing a research paper or a policy briefing instead of digesting one.”

He started at Bloomberg in 2010 upon his graduation from UNC-Chapel Hill.  While at UNC-CH, he was a columnist and a city desk reporter for The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper, and was a summer intern at Bloomberg and at Congressional Quarterly. He was also on the men’s crew team at UNC.

One of his colleagues sent out the following announcement in a bit of economic reporter humor:

Please join us to bid farewell to Alex Kowalski, who is leaving Bloomberg to become the Perfect Anecdote.

Alex will be lowering the participation rate, taking on student debt,  renting instead of buying, and avoiding retail outlets (unless he’s  underemployed at one of them for less than 35 hours a week and not  collecting health benefits).

In the process, he’ll give a boost to Comfort, especially in the  critical 18- to 34-year-old bracket, because he’ll be doing what he’s  been wanting to do for a long time: get his graduate degree.

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.

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