Bloomberg Law hires Rainey to cover Labor Department

Rebecca Rainey, (M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico)

Bloomberg Law has hired Rebecca Rainey to cover the Labor Department as a senior reporter.

She will start next month.

Rainey has been at Politico for the past three years as an employment and immigration reporter with Politico Pro and the author of the Morning Shift newsletter.

Prior to joining Politico in August 2018, Rainey covered the Occupational Safety and Health administration and regulatory reform on Capitol Hill. Her work has been published by The Washington Post and the Associated Press, among other outlets.

Rainey holds a bachelor’s degree from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

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.