Bloomberg News hires de Haldevang for Mexico City bureau

Max de Haldevang

Bloomberg News has hired Max de Haldevang as a reporter in its Mexico City bureau.

De Haldevang was previously a reporter on Quartz’s geopolitics team, where he reported on international corruption issues ranging from Russian money laundering to Mexican environmental abuses.

He was a 2020 Livingston Award finalist for his reporting on Walmart’s tax abuses and America’s role as the world’s biggest tax haven. He won two 2019 National Association of Real Estate Editors awards for his investigation into the Kazakhstan first family’s ownership ties to Sherlock Holmes’ £130m London address.

He worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on the Luanda Leaks and Mauritius Leaks, which won a 2019 EPPY award.

Before Quartz, he reported in Mexico and the UK for Reuters, in Russia for The Moscow Times, and worked at the Rio and Sochi Olympics for NBC. He speaks Russian, Spanish, and French.

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.