Bloomberg puts CNBC in awkward position over conference coverage
The Sohn Investment Conference is now teaming up with Bloomberg Link, Bloomberg’s conference business, to produce its annual investment conference, leaving rivals such as CNBC with some tough decisions to make about how to proceed with coverage, reports Linette Lopez of Business Insider. Lopez writes, “Every journalist covers Sohn — CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, you name […]
Chu, longtime Bloomberg editor, leaves company
Patrick Chu, who worked at Bloomberg News for more than 16 years and was recently its Asian Billionaires editor, has left the company. Chu had been San Francisco bureau chief, managing editor for training in New York, managing editor for the economy in Washington and managing editor for Asia in Tokyo. He was also global […]
Working the M&A beat at Bloomberg
Alex Sherman is a reporter at Bloomberg’s New York headquarters. He started at Bloomberg in 2008 as an intern out of graduate school and has since worked in a variety of roles and covered a number of beats. Now, he covers mergers and acquisitions in the technology, media and telecom sectors. He spoke with Bloomberg […]
Bloomberg seeks finance editor in Hong Kong
Bloomberg News seeks an editor to join its Asia-Pacific Finance team. Responsibilities include generating and shaping ideas, editing copy, coaching and mentoring reporters and interacting with fellow editors on the team and across the organization. Knowledge of the banking and private equity industries and financial regulation is preferred. An understanding of the economy and financial […]
Bloomberg seeks banking reporter in Hong Kong
Bloomberg’s Asia-Pacific finance team is seeking an experienced reporter in Hong Kong to help cover banking, brokers and consumer-finance companies in the region. Candidates should be prepared to break news, develop a broad array of sources, and write authoritatively about the industry. The role requires a sense of curiosity and the ability to propose, report […]
A biz journalist who is humble, caring and a friend who now teaches
Amal Rockn of The Daily Titan at Cal State-Fullerton profiles former Bloomberg News journalist Joe Winski, who is teaching business journalism as a Reynolds Visiting professor at the university. Rockn writes, “John McCorry, executive editor of the New York bureau for Bloomberg, worked with him from the mid-1990s until the end of his career in […]
Some Bloomberg employees want to unionize
Fearful of layoffs and unhappy with work conditions, employees at a unit of Bloomberg LP have launched a campaign to unionize, Peter Elkind of Fortune writes. Elkind reports, “The drive, to join Local 32035 of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, involves about a hundred salaried data analysts at Bloomberg’s large campus in Skillman, N.J. They work for […]
Bloomberg seeks energy markets editor in Dubai
Bloomberg News is seeking an experienced editor for our expanding coverage of energy markets news, particularly oil markets, across the Middle East and Africa. The job will be based in Dubai. The successful candidate will work with a number of experienced reporters as well as freelancers across both regions and will integrate fully with European-based […]
Kimes wins SABEW young business journalist award
Mina Kimes, 28, an enterprise investigative reporter for Bloomberg News, is the inaugural winner of the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist prize, honoring journalists under age 30. She will receive her award March 29 at the 51st SABEW Annual Conference in Phoenix. The judging panel also chose to honor four finalists: Chris Kirkham, 30, projects […]
Bloomberg seeks speed desk editor in Mexico City
The Speed Desk editor will produce breaking news stories on business and general interest topics: company earnings, stock market reports, announcements in politics, earthquakes. The reporter will need to quickly read through breaking news releases in Spanish and English to find financial details and immediately transform them into real-time headlines for clients. Qualifications: -Bachelors degree […]
