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Bloomberg editor quits over concerns about covering Bloomberg

Kathy Kiely, the Washington news director for Bloomberg News, resigned Wednesday over concerns the company could not adequately cover owner Michael Bloomberg’s considerations about whether to run for president as an independent candidate, reports Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post.

Calderone writes, “‘I did not feel we could cover the Bloomberg trial balloon in the aggressive way I thought it deserved,’ Kiely told HuffPost.

“‘I think there are a lot of good people at Bloomberg making an honest effort to work this out,’ she said. ‘I just feel very strongly that the rules of the game should be the same for everybody.’

“Bloomberg News has long placed restrictions on its coverage of its owner, a former mayor of New York City, barring reporters from writing about his personal life and wealth. The news organization’s coverage of Bloomberg was scant this past weekend following a report in The New York Times that he was weighing a run.”

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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.