Bloomberg Industry hires Clearfield as editor for tax

Alex Clearfield

Bloomberg Industry Group has hired Alex Clearfield as an editor for its tax coverage.

Clearfield has been an associate editor for the National Journal, where he wan editor for Hotline’s twice-daily campaign newsletters, working with a team of staff correspondents and two other editors to condense the day’s campaign trail news.

He was also a staff correspondent for the National Journal.

Clearfield was previously a staffer at CQ Roll Call. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University.

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.