ABC News, Bloomberg TV to join forces?

Brian Stelter and Bill Carter of the New York Times have a story Monday about the changing nature of network news and mention that ABC News and Bloomberg Television have considered jointly hiring journalists.

Stelter and Carter write, “In recent months, a handful of ABC News reporters has appeared on the business channel Bloomberg, and the two organizations have tried to jointly hire at least one person, according to two staff members who asked not to be named because they were not authorized by their employers to speak. Those two, and two others, labeled the sharing by ABC and Bloomberg — what one person called flirting — a possible prelude to a broader news-gathering pact.

“A Bloomberg spokeswoman said that the company was a client of ABC’s affiliate service and declined to comment on any talks about a broader relationship between the organizations. An ABC spokesman said the current level of cooperation with Bloomberg was ‘hardly unusual.'”

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