Bloomberg editors: Our Supreme Court coverage rocks

Bloomberg senior executive editor Marty Schenker and chief content officer Josh Tyrangiel sent the following memo to the Washington office this afternoon:

To the DC Bureau

Without losing sight of the large stakes for America, the Obama administration history, and all that, the last two days have provided shining examples of the excellence of our Supreme Court team, Greg Stohr, Laurie Asseo, Mark McQuillan and David McLaughlin. We beat the competition on King v. Burwell by six seconds and this morning added another three seconds to their margin of victory on the legalization of gay marriage. Those seconds are huge to our customers and burnish our reputation, which is great. But what we really celebrate today are the countless hours of hard and unglamorous preparation and planning that led to those wins.

Congrats team, you have the admiration of your peers around the globe.

Josh & Marty

According to Bloomberg, it came out ahead by 9 seconds with the Friday news that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage:

Bloomberg — 10:00:54

Reuters — 10:01:03

Dow Jones — 10:01:50

Associated Press — 10:02:05

On Thursday, Bloomberg’s Stohr beat the competition by 6 seconds, giving Bloomberg users the fastest information. Hospital shares jumped 8 percent at the Supreme Court decision.

Bloomberg — 10:08:09

Reuters — 10:08:15

Associated Press — 10:09:41

Dow Jones — 10:10:05