Bloomberg News writer to visit

Rob Wells, a banking and tax writer for Bloomberg News, will serve as the fall semester’s business writer in residence Oct. 4-8.

Wells writes for Bloomberg, a business news service with bureaus around the world. Based in Washington, D.C., he covers banking and tax news, much of it coming out of Congress.

Before joining Bloomberg last year, Wells worked for the Associated Press for 11 years. He staffed AP bureaus in Nevada, California, Kentucky and New York before he became the AP tax writer in Washington. He holds a bachelor’s degree from California State University in Sacramento.

During his week at UW–Madison, Wells will speak to classes in journalism and business, consult with individual students and faculty, and give a talk in the “What Matters to Me and Why” series in Chadbourne Hall.

The Wells residency is part of the ongoing Business Writer in Residence program, sponsored by the School of Business, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Office of News and Public Affairs, with support from the UW Foundation.