Bloomberg Media hires first chief partnerships officer

Bloomberg Media has hired Twitter executive Nick Sallon as the company’s first chief partnerships officer, reports Todd Spangler of Variety.

Spangler reports, “Sallon will join Bloomberg in August 2022 in the newly created position, reporting to CEO M. Scott Havens. Sallon will oversee the company’s global business teams responsible for multiplatform video and audio expansion, global partnerships, content licensing and distribution, and enterprise consumer subscription sales.

“Most recently, Sallon was Twitter’s global head of longform partnerships and had previously held positions as head of U.S. news partnerships and GM of live video news. At Twitter, he negotiated dozens of video distribution deals and co-developed programming for a slate of original content franchises including Bloomberg Media’s ‘Quicktake,’ BuzzFeed News’ ‘AM to DM’ and the Wall Street Journal’s ‘What’s Now’ series.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.