Newest hires Bloomberg TV’s Fox as editor in chief
Longtime Bloomberg Television host Pimm Fox has been named editor in chief of Newest Media. Fox will assume the post on July 15. The Newest portfolio includes The Voice of Business, The International Business Exchange leadership conference and The IRG Index of Corporate Economic Growth and Influence. “As Newest expands its programming, Pimm will lead […]
Bloomberg’s Doherty to cover Bank of America
Bloomberg News reporter Katherine Doherty has switched beats and has joined the finance team to cover Bank of America, Citadel Securities and the exchanges. Previously, Doherty was a credit reporter, reporting on bankruptcy/debt. She previously also interned at Bloomberg covering global and U.S. health care. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Doherty was a distressed-debt/bankruptcy reporter at […]
Bloomberg seeks a European ag reporter
Bloomberg News is seeking a resourceful, self-starting reporter to write about agricultural commodities. Sugar, coffee and cocoa will form the basis of your beat — a rich vein for market-moving scoops. You’ll coordinate with reporters across the globe — covering cocoa growers in Ghana to sugar refining in Dubai — and will be expected to […]
Bloomberg taps Boyle as senior management reporter
Bloomberg has appointed Matthew Boyle as a senior management reporter, a role covering the biggest trends in corporate strategy, the workplace, what the workplace is all about and professional services. Previously, Boyle was covering the biggest U.S. retailers including Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and Costco. Boyle has been with Bloomberg for over 11 years, and […]
Bloomberg’s Ainger will now cover climate in Brussels
John Ainger, a reporter covering government and the economy for Bloomberg in UK, has switched beats and will now be covering climate for Bloomberg in Brussels. Ainger joined Bloomberg in 2016 as a news intern. He also co-founded Planet Mundus, a bi-weekly global affairs podcast focused on minimizing the distance between people globally. In addition, […]
How Bloomberg is aggressively covering environment news
Ben Smith of The New York Times examines how Bloomberg News is covering the environment. Smith writes, “The problem, reporters for Bloomberg Green found, was that many of these moves were meaningless. There was no standard accounting for companies’ claims about what the reporters called ‘an ethereal token known as a carbon credit,’ and no accountability. And […]
MarketWatch taps Bloomberg’s Chen to cover rates and currencies
Vivien Lou Chen, a veteran Bloomberg reporter, has left to join MarketWatch in San Francisco, covering rates and currencies, the same beat she was covering at Bloomberg. Chen had been with Bloomberg for over 22 years. Chen also reported for Daily Journal Corp., Los Angeles Times and Des Moines Register. She has also interned at […]
McCarthy departs TechCrunch for Bloomberg
Marcella McCarthy has joined Bloomberg’s new Latin American initiative, Bloomberg Línea, where she will be covering tech/startups and serving as the publication’s U.S. correspondent. Recently, McCarthy was at TechCrunch, where she covered Latin America, Miami and health tech globally. Her work has also appeared in The Miami Herald, The American Academy of Neurology, Yahoo, Yahoo […]
Bloomberg TV taps Jacquez as booking producer
Yahaira Jacquez is now a booking producer at Bloomberg TV. Previously, she was a reporter/producer at Reuters. Jacquez had been with Reuters for over 5 years, joining as a live editor and then serving as a producer. She was also an editorial intern at Reuters. Her work has also been featured in the Daily Mail, […]
Bloomberg names leaders of German news operation
Christoph Rauwald in Frankfurt and Birgit Jennen in Berlin have been named to run Bloomberg’s news operations in Germany together. Rauwald has been a senior reporter covering Volkswagen and Daimler AG, among other companies. He previously spent seven years at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, and three years at Handelsblatt. Jennen has been […]
