Bloomberg Law hires Kullgren to cover labor

Ian Kullgren March 9, 2018. (M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico)

Ian Kullgren, a reporter on Politico’s employment and immigration team, has been hired by Bloomberg Law to cover labor.

He will start next week.

Before joining Politico, he was a reporter for The Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and was part of a team that covered a 41-day standoff with armed militants at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Their efforts earned the Associated Press Media Editors grand prize for news reporting in 2017. His real beat was politics, though, and he spent most his time at the state capitol covering the governor and state legislature.

He graduated from Michigan State University, where he ditched most of his classes to work on The State News, the student newspaper.

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.