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Bloomberg hires Allyn to help lead prediction market coverage

October 19, 2026

Posted by Chris Roush

Bloomberg News has hired NPR’s Bobby Allyn to help lead coverage of the prediction market industry.

Allyn is a technology correspondent based in Los Angeles. He reports on Big Tech, startups, social media, artificial intelligence, surveillance and privacy issues, tech litigation, Silicon Valley culture and other tech-related topics.

He’s covered TikTok’s battle against U.S. regulators, the fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk’s hostile take-over of Twitter.

He came to Los Angeles after stints in San Francisco, Washington and Philadelphia where he covered criminal justice at member station WHYY. He helped lead NPR’s reporting of Bill Cosby’s two criminal trials.

Allyn has been a staff reporter at Nashville Public Radio and daily newspapers including The Oregonian in Portland and The Tennessean in Nashville. His work has also appeared in BuzzFeed News, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

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