Bloomberg Law hires Spoto as California reporter
Bloomberg Law has hired Maia Spoto to be a reporter covering courts in Los Angeles. They will start next month. They have been an audience engagement producer at The Texas Tribune. Spoto recently graduated from Northwestern University, where they were an investigations editor and senior staffer at The Daily Northwestern. They also interned at Bloomberg Law […]
Barak Harif departs Bloomberg after 17 years
Bloomberg News senior editor Tal Barak Harif has left the news organization after 17 years for a new opportunity. “I feel privileged to have had this opportunity to constantly learn and come in every day to do work that’s truly meaningful,” she wrote on Twitter. She previously was managing editor for First Word and Top Live, and […]
Bloomberg appoints Wright as Australia ag and weather reporter
Keira Wright is now an agriculture and weather reporter at Bloomberg News in Australia. Recently, she served as a social media and digital team member rotator. Wright joined in February 2022 as a stocks reporting intern. Later, she held the posts of breaking news rotator reporter and global business rotator reporter. She was also a […]
Bloomberg reporter Young departs after 12 years
Elise Young, a Bloomberg News reporter covering government, politics and the municipal finance market, has left the news organization after more than 12 years. Young previously spent more than 17 years at The (Bergen) Record in New Jersey covering congressional and New Jersey politics. She also worked as a copy editor for The Daily Record […]
Bloomberg hires Altstein in Israel
Galit Altstein will join Bloomberg’s Israel bureau as a reporter to cover the intersection of economics and government. Recently, Altstein worked at Galey Zahal, where she served as editor in chief of Israel’s two popular radio stations; GLZ Radio, a talk radio station focused on news, current events, documentary and culture, and GLGLZ, a music […]
Bloomberg cancels “Baystate Business” radio show
Bloomberg has pulled the plug on “Baystate Business,” its only locally produced radio program, and laid off hosts including Kim Carrigan, Tom Moroney, and Joe Shortsleeve, reports Larry Edelman of the Boston Globe. Edelman reports, “The show — which aired from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on 106.1 FM Boston/Newburyport and 92.9 HD2, and was also available […]
Egkolfopoulou tapped to be team leader for Bloomberg legal coverage
Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou, a personal finance reporter for Bloomberg News, has been named team leader for its legal coverage. She will manage a team of reporters who cover courtrooms across the country and organize coverage on the biggest legal cases. Egkolfopoulou had been on the 2020 election reporting team before joining the personal finance desk. Before […]
Gould swaps Sky News for Bloomberg
Samuel Gould, a social media producer at Sky News, will leave to join Bloomberg in July. Previously, he worked as an online editor for LBC at Global. Gould worked part-time at Apple for more than two years and served as a director, online editor and presenter at newspaper publisher Birmingham Eastside. He also worked […]
Golfer suing Bloomberg News for defamation over photo
Michael McCann of Sportico reports about professional golfer Patrick Reed’s defamation lawsuit against Bloomberg News over the use of a photo of him with a story. McCann reports, “Reed maintains Bloomberg’s photo selection was part of a ‘concerted scheme to defame, smear, and harm anyone associated with LIV.’ Reed was one of the first golfers to sign […]
FedScoop hires Bloomberg Industry’s Alder to cover tech
FedScoop has hired Madison Alder as a technology reporter. Alder has been at Bloomberg Industry Group, where she was a reporter covering the judiciary. During her time on that beat, she broke news about judicial nominations, and in early 2021 was was the first journalist to reveal details of a cyberattack that hit the U.S. […]
