Steve Scherer, Bloomberg News' economics and policy reporter in Rome, is responsible for news coverage of the Italian government and Europe's fourth-biggest economy. Scherer attended Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN, for his undergraduate studies, and received a masters in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, IL. Scherer has lived off an on in Italy for half his life, and has been in Rome for the past five years.