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Bloomberg hires Chmielewski for LA bureau

September 10, 2026

Posted by Chris Roush

Dawn C. Chmielewski

Bloomberg News managing editor Sarah McGregor and managing editor for media and entertainment Lucas Shaw sent out the following on Thursday:

We’re pleased to welcome Dawn Chmielewski as a new editor in Los Angeles starting on Sept. 21. Dawn will work primarily with the entertainment, media and telecom team run by Lucas Shaw, but also as part of the group covering California and national news, supervised by Sarah McGregor.

Dawn joins us from Reuters, where she was an entertainment reporter for the past five years.

Previously, Dawn wrote cover stories for Forbes on Jeffrey Katzenberg and Shari Redstone and co-authored a book Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix.

She’s also been an editor or writer at publications including Deadline, Re/Code, the Los Angeles Times and the San Jose Mercury News. Dawn hosts a weekly entertainment business report on KPCC radio, a Los Angeles NPR affiliate.

In her spare time, Dawn is an avid cyclist and runner who has logged 45 half and full marathons (and counting).

Sarah McGregor and Lucas Shaw

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