How Wall Street rivals joined together against Bloomberg
Susanne Craig and Jessica Silver-Greenberg of The New York Times write Friday about how Wall Street rivals Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan joined together to complain to Bloomberg about how its reporters were using the Bloomberg terminal to snoop on its bankers. Craig and Silver-Greenberg write, “Goldman’s public relations chief, Jake Siewert, a former Treasury […]
NYPost: Bloomberg CEO frustrated he can’t hold editor accountable
Bloomberg LP CEO Dan Doctoroff has privately expressed frustration with founding Editor-in-Chief Matt Winkler’s Teflon status in the fallout from the company’s spying scandal, reports Mark DeCambre of the New York Post. DeCambre writes, “A source said while Doctoroff has made his feelings known to some clients and colleagues, he has also indicated his hands […]
New jobs for Bloomberg editors
Three Bloomberg News editors are taking on new responsibilities. Bret Okeson, (left) who has been a leader of company news in Asia, will be become Top editor in Tokyo, leveraging his Japanese fluency. Japan is the country with the most Bloomberg customers in the region and Okseon will have an essential role increasing Bloomberg News […]
Dow Jones’ new DJX product to take aim at Bloomberg
News Corp. held an investor meeting on Tuesday where the soon-to-be-split company discussed its future, and its Dow Jones & Co. subsidiary unveiled a product called DJX aimed at rival Bloomberg. An Associated Press story states, “Analyst Todd Juenger of Bernstein Research said the stock market was putting little to no value on the publishing […]
Bloomberg hires Tam from Wall Street Journal
Pui-Wing Tam, the former deputy bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau, will join Bloomberg next month as the Team Leader running Silicon Valley tech coverage, succeeding Tom Giles. Pui-Wing has broad knowledge of Silicon Valley companies, consumer electronics, venture capital and business technology. She was the first to report the ouster […]
Bloomberg, Citi launch chat service for currency traders
Bloomberg L.P. Thursday unveiled a new chat service for foreign-exchange traders across various banks, developed in collaboration with Citigroup, reports William Launder of The Wall Street Journal. Launder writes, “The product is part of a broader effort by banks to take direct control of employee-communications services, at a time when the security of chat platforms […]
Bloomberg News hires Boston Globe’s ME
Caleb Solomon will join Bloomberg News as an editor at large for Top News, beginning Monday, June 17, editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler announced Thursday. Solomon joins Bloomberg News from The Boston Globe, where he has served as managing editor/digital since March 2013. Previously, Solomon was The Globe’s managing editor, where he acted as the newsroom’s chief […]
Bloomberg econ reporter to become the Perfect Anecdote
Alex Kowalski, an economics reporter for Bloomberg News in Washington, is leaving the wire service for graduate school in urban planning at Cal-Berkeley. “I will focus on housing, community and economic development, topics that increasingly commanded my interests as I wrote more and more about the U.S. economy,” wrote Kowalski in an email to Talking […]
Reuters vs. Bloomberg for chat functions
Simone Foxman of Quartz writes about how Reuters also offers a chat function to its customers that is similar to the one that Bloomberg offers on its terminals. Foxman writes, “Alternatives to Bloomberg chat are already out there, the most prominent offered by Thomson Reuters itself since 2002. In fact, according to a source, Thomson […]
Financial firms seeking Bloomberg alternative
Nathaniel Popper of The New York Times reports about how some Wall Street firms are seeking an alternative to Bloomberg LP’s services in the wake of the data and news service company’s snooping scandal. Popper writes, “Two competitors to Bloomberg — Thomson Reuters and Markit — have already signed an agreement to develop the technology, […]
