Categories: OLD Media Moves

Bloomberg appears on biz news TV, but it's Fox Business

The mayor of New York, as most know, is the founder of the company that is the parent of the highly competitive Bloomberg News, the growing business news operation that includes Bloomberg Television.

So, what is Mike Bloomberg doing on rival Fox Business Network this afternoon, and breaking news to boot? A Fox Business reporter caught up with him attending the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley to talk about LeBron James not going to either of the two New York-area teams.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.