Former Bloomberg Opinion columnist Noah Smith writes about his departure in 2021.
Smith writes, “In fact, there were three reasons I left, two of which are rather mundane. The first was that in summer 2021 I developed chronic vestibular migraines, which made it hard to look at a computer screen for more than four hours a day; this forced me to choose between my hobby and my job, and I chose the former.
“The second reason was that Bloomberg Opinion, the division of Bloomberg I worked for, had some management changes that resulted in more layers of bureaucracy being added to the writing process; pitches had to go through more layers of approval, making it much harder to maintain my normal level of output. This made Bloomberg Opinion a less attractive place to work.
“Neither of those reasons are very interesting or unusual. But there was a third reason, which is that in May of 2021, I became involved in an incident between Bloomberg and the Chinese Communist Party.”
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