David Merritt, Bloomberg’s head of media editorial, and Katie Boyce, senior executive editor of digital editorial, sent out the following to the staff on Tuesday:
We’re thrilled to announce that Katherine Bell is joining Bloomberg as our new Executive Editor of the Digital Weekend team, starting April 1 based in New York.Katherine has been a leader in digital innovation for the past 25 years, mostly in business and financial journalism. She was the editor-in-chief at both Quartz and Barrons, where she led the digital transformation of Dow Jones’s weekly financial news magazine. She also spent a decade at Harvard Business Review focused on growing their digital platforms globally. Most recently, she was the editor-in-chief at Goldman Sachs responsible for all of the firm’s public content, including podcasts, video and their Briefings newsletter.Launching a weekend product is a critical priority for digital this year as we march towards our next milestone of 1 million bloomberg.com subscribers. We will use the weekend to showcase our most ambitious long form journalism across all platforms, add more travel, food, culture and entertainment coverage, elevate key newsroom voices and help set up our users personally and professionally for the week ahead. This team will be commissioning and collaborating on many of our biggest editorial initiatives. We are lucky to have Katherine leading the charge.Bobby Ghosh is also joining Katherine’s team as a senior editor in the US, based in New York. Bobby most recently worked as a foreign policy and culture columnist on Bloomberg Opinion and pre-Bloomberg held stints as editor-in-chief of the Hindustan Times, correspondent and editor at TIME and on-air talent at CNN. He has worked in every region including DC, London, Baghdad, Singapore and New Delhi. His experience will be invaluable as we work to build a truly global weekend product.If you’re interested in joining the digital weekend team, we are hiring senior editors in EMEA and APAC as well as an audience editor and a digital producer. See PATH<GO> to apply. The Digital Weekend team will work across the newsroom to build out this new product, collaborating closely with Alan Goldstein’s breaking news weekend team, working with all of the media platforms and various beat reporting teams globally. We appreciate your support in helping us get it off the ground later this year.Please join us in welcoming Katherine to Bloomberg and congratulating Bobby on his new role.Dave & Katie
