Kathy Kiely, the Washington news director for Bloomberg News, resigned Wednesday over concerns the company could not adequately cover owner Michael Bloomberg’s considerations about whether to run for president as an independent candidate, reports Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post.
Calderone writes, “‘I did not feel we could cover the Bloomberg trial balloon in the aggressive way I thought it deserved,’ Kiely told HuffPost.
“‘I think there are a lot of good people at Bloomberg making an honest effort to work this out,’ she said. ‘I just feel very strongly that the rules of the game should be the same for everybody.’
“Bloomberg News has long placed restrictions on its coverage of its owner, a former mayor of New York City, barring reporters from writing about his personal life and wealth. The news organization’s coverage of Bloomberg was scant this past weekend following a report in The New York Times that he was weighing a run.”
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