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Bloomberg editor leaves to go to New York Times

Bloomberg News senior editor David Gillen resigned last week to take a job at the New York Times business desk, sources at Bloomberg confirmed this weekend.

Gillen’s position at the Times has not yet been formally announced, according to an employee of its business news desk, but we hear it’s to be finance editor.

Gillen was considered one of the top editors at Bloomberg News as assistant managing editor of Bloomberg Markets magazine since 2000. He was also the bureau chief in Hong Kong from 1995 to 1998 for the business news service and worked in Bloomberg’s London bureau from 1992 to 1995.

He joined Bloomberg from Bond Buyer, where he was one of TJFR’s 30 under 30 business journalists back in 1991. He had worked at American Banker/Bond Buyer as a correspondent, New York reporter and a copy editor.

One writer for the Bloomberg MarketsÂ magazine called Gillen “the best editor on the magazine — by far.”

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.

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Joe DiStefano says:
October 31, 2007 at 11:51 pm
David Gillen is a great structural and word editor, as I learned when he spent two months shaping the current (November 2007) Bloomberg Markets cover story on Citigroup's Charles Prince, which ran under my by-line. (That cover appeared alongside the Talking Biz News item reporting Gillen's departure.)
But David wasn't the lone star on Bloomberg Markets' editorial staff, as your nameless informant claimed.
Veteran investigative editor Jonathan Neumann and the magazine's boss, editor Ron Henkoff, would be invaluable on any serious magazine staff.
Jon's and David's strengths were complementary. For example, Jon is highly collaborative and works closely with reporters, while David did his magic rewrites in isolation.
I'm sure he'll be successful at the Times.
-- Joseph N. DiStefano, now at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
adam l says:
November 1, 2007 at 9:50 am
Isolation? I HAVE to disagree on this. Dave edited my work for years and it was always collaborative.
Jonathan a fine editor, too. I am not denying that. But to portray Dave as someone who rewrote with no give-and-take was not the experience I had.
I bet Dave's star shines bright at the NYT
ghee says:
November 15, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Colgate grad. Class of 88.