News service hires Loeb winner

Neil Roland, who won a Gerald Loeb Award while working for Bloomberg News, has been hired by UK-based regulatory news, commentary and data service MLex market intelligence as a senior correspondent. Roland tells Talking Biz News he will remain in Washington, DC. He is on a freelance basis for December, then starts on a permanent […]

Biz journalists on Forbes 30 under 30 media list

Media reporter Brian Stelter of the New York Times, “SquawkBox” producer Maneet Ahuja and Daniel Fletcher, social media director for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, are among the business journalists listed on the 30 under 30 list of media professionals by Jeff Bercovici of Forbes. Fletcher, writes Bercovici, is a “a social media whiz kid who […]

Bloomberg hires London editor for its rich coverage

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Rob LaFranco, a former Forbes journalist, is joining Bloomberg News as an editor responsible for coverage of the world’s wealthiest individuals, a spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday to Talking Biz News. He will be based in London and will start Jan. 9. A former Forbes reporter, LaFranco joins Bloomberg from Warner Music Group, […]

On being a kick ass business journalist

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE David Evans is an investigative business journalist who writes for Bloomberg Markets. A graduate of the University of Southern California Law Center, he spent five years prosecuting fraud for the U.S. government as a trial attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission before joining Bloomberg in 1992.  He joined the magazine’s […]

Bloomberg Television signs Regan

Bloomberg Television announced Monday it has signed Trish Regan, former CNBC anchor and CBS News correspondent, as an anchor. Regan will co-anchor Bloomberg TV’s “Street Smart” which will air from 3-5 pm ET weekdays from Bloomberg Television’s global headquarters in New York, beginning Jan. 9. She will also anchor a number of prime time specials […]

The reasoning behind Bloomberg’s sustainability coverage

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Eric Roston is a journalist who oversees Bloomberg News new initiative in covering sustainability-related issues. Roston peviously wrote The Climate Post, a popular weekly climate-and-energy news analysis at ClimatePost.net, and was affiliated with the the Washington, DC office of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. Previously, Roston wrote for […]

Biz journalist Lewis to speak at Princeton commencement

Michael Lewis, the well-known financial journalist and Bloomberg News columnist, will be the commencement speaker for Princeton in June 2012. He is the second business journalist to be named a 2012 commencement speaker. New York Times business columnist James Stewart will speak at the DePauw commencement. Ellie Wilkinson of the Daily Princetonian writes, “Lewis is […]

A business journalist’s dream: To get mentioned in an SEC filing

Yes, business journalists are geeks. We get excited reading Securities and Exchange Commission filings and waiting for a company’s earnings release. That’s why the amended S-1 filed Thursday by Zynga Inc. for its initial public offering should warm the cockles of the Bloomberg News reporter who wrote this story. The filing, on p. 18, included […]

Bloomberg hires St. Pete Times reporter

Peter Schorsch of the St. PetersBlog writes that Bloomberg News has hired Sydney Freedberg, an investigative reporter for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida. Schorsch writes, “Sydney has worked for some of the nation’s great newspapers, joining the Times in 1998 after 15 years with the Miami Herald (over two stints) and positions as well […]

Why Bloomberg Businessweek rocks

Jack Shafer, a columnist for Reuters, writes Wednesday about why he likes Bloomberg Businessweek magazine and focuses on its great feature stories. Shafer writes, “I’m not the only one noticing the magazine’s delightful feature creep. I checked in with Max Linsky, who with Aaron Lammer runs Longform.org, the wonderful site that with the help of readers […]