Bloomberg hires Goldberg as Boston bureau chief
Bloomberg News senior executive editor of Americas Jacqueline Simmons and managing editor Flynn McRoberts sent out the following announcement: We’re excited to announce that Carey Goldberg will be joining Bloomberg as our Boston bureau chief. The CommonHealth editor at WBUR (Boston’s NPR affiliate), Carey previously served as the Boston bureau chief of The New York […]
City University partners with Bloomberg on biz journalism diversity scheme
City University of London is collaborating with Bloomberg and the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media to take part in a Business Journalism Diversity Program this summer. The virtual scheme aimed at U.K. university students will run from June 21 to June 25, 2021. Successful applicants will explore how journalists report effectively on the […]
Columnist Giugliano departs Bloomberg Opinion
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Ferdinando Giugliano has left the news organization. His last day was Friday. Giugliano is becoming a media advisor to Italian prime minister Mario Draghi. Giugliano wrote columns and editorials on European economics. He was also a columnist for La Repubblica, one of Italy’s leading dailies. Between 2011 and 2015, he worked for […]
Kramer moves to deputy team leader at Bloomberg Industry
Alexis Kramer is now a deputy team leader on the health and benefits team, focusing on pharmaceuticals coverage, at Bloomberg Industry Group. She previously was a senior content editor focusing on legal and regulatory issues, mainly focusing on coverage of the government’s coronavirus response. Kramer also spent five years as a senior legal editor at Bloomberg […]
Bloomberg Tax hires Rapoport as senior reporter
Bloomberg Tax has hired Michael Rapoport as a senior reporter covering international tax issues. Rapoport previously worked at The Wall Street Journal covering accounting before leaving in 2019. Rapoport had been at the Journal since 2010, and at Dow Jones in general since 1993. He wrote about a wide variety of issues related to accounting, including the accounting […]
Bloomberg senior writer Onaran among those laid off
Bloomberg News senior writer Yalman Onaran was among the staffers laid off this week. He has been covering global banking, regulation and the politics of finance, writing feature articles about banking issues worldwide. He joined the company in 1998, originally as the Turkey bureau chief. Onaran is the author of the 2011 book called “Zombie Banks: How […]
Bloomberg Industry union leader: This is why unions matter
Fatima Hussein, a reporter at Bloomberg Law and the head of the union that represents Bloomberg Industry staffers, sent out the following on Thursday afternoon: Dear Guild Members, As reported in the New York Times, 90 of our beloved colleagues at Bloomberg News will be laid off. Our hearts, thoughts, and prayers are with them. […]
Bloomberg Industry hires Carrizosa as video journalist
Josh Block, executive producer of videos and podcasts at Bloomberg Industry Group, sent out the following announcement on Thursday: Please join me in welcoming a new member of the video and podcast team, Macarena Carrizosa. Macarena is joining the team as a video journalist and will produce videos on topics across all INDG news desks. […]
Two-time Loeb winner Ivry among 90 Bloomberg layoffs
Two-time Gerald Loeb Award winner Bob Ivry is among the approximate 90 staffers who were laid off at Bloomberg on Thursday. Ivry has been at Bloomberg since 2006 as a reporter and editor and has also won a George Polk Award. And he is the author of “The Seven Sins of Wall Street: Big Banks, Their Washington […]
Bloomberg’s Micklethwait on layoffs, reorganization
Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait sent out the following email to the staff on Thursday: To All Bloomberg Editorial & Research: As a newsroom, we have learnt a lot over the past 12 months. At our best, we have been unbeatable. Look at the way we covered Covid and markets, or at the way […]
