Bloomberg seeks commodities reporter in London

Bloomberg News is seeking a reporter in its London office to cover the commodities markets other than energy. The team produces breaking news stories globally on markets, supply and demand. The successful candidate will be able to meet real-time deadlines and react to rapidly changing markets with accurate and insightful coverage. Qualifications: -Bachelor’s degree or […]

Klein joining FT Alphaville from Bloomberg View

Matthew C. Klein, a writer for Bloomberg View, has been hired to write for FT Alphaville. He will start Monday. Klein writes for Bloomberg View about the economy and financial markets. He previously wrote for the Economist magazine and its economics blog, Free Exchange. Before that, Klein was a research associate at the Council on […]

Bloomberg seeks editor for Americas finance team

Bloomberg News seeks an editor for the finance team in the Americas. The ideal candidate for this New York-based role will be an experienced writer and editor with a knack for nurturing reporters and helping them translate complex concepts into compelling prose. Responsibilities will include coaching and mentoring reporters, helping them generate enterprise stories and […]

Bloomberg hires new e-commerce reporter

Spencer Soper, a business reporter for the Allentown Morning Call, has been hired by Bloomberg News to cover e-commerce companies such as Amazon and eBay. He will be based out of Bloomberg’s San Francisco bureau and will start Aug. 25. His last day at the Morning Call is Friday. At the Morning Call, Soper also […]

Bloomberg seeks real estate reporter in Shanghai

Bloomberg News seeks a real estate reporter in its Shanghai bureau to cover the property industry. Knowledge and understanding of property companies, real estate investors and mortgage markets both commercial and residential is essential. Business reporting at a major newspaper or wire service is preferred. The successful applicant will be required to break news, handle […]

Bloomberg Business to replace Businessweek.com

Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review writes Thursday that one of the changes being planned at Bloomberg’s media operations is to rename the Bloomberg Businessweek website to just Bloomberg Business. Starkman writes, “The strategy was not widely shared internally, though some elements have leaked. According to people with knowledge of the strategy, it has […]

Bloomberg seeks newsletter editors in New York

Bloomberg LP is seeking experienced editors for its newsletter division, Bloomberg Brief. The ideal candidate will have a background editing in a real-time environment including some editing of economics content; experience with newsletters or specialty publications is also a plus. The job will include editing economists’ analyses of data on very short deadlines. The editor […]

Topolsky of The Verge is joining Bloomberg

Josh Topolsky, the co-founder of the technology website The Verge, will join Bloomberg as the editor of a series of new online ventures it is launching as part of a revamped journalism strategy, reports Ravi Somaiya of the New York Times. Somaiya writes, “Mr. Topolsky will start Aug. 4, and will report to Josh Tyrangiel, […]

Bloomberg seeks oil reporter in London

Bloomberg News seeks an experienced reporter in its London office to break news and write enterprise pieces on dynamic oil markets with a particular focus on covering the European refinery industry. The successful applicant will co-ordinate with colleagues across Europe as well as Africa and the Middle East, to break news on refinery outages and […]