Bloomberg hires Franklin for editor at large position in DC

Tim Franklin, the director of the National Sports Journalism Center at the Indiana University School of Journalism, will join Bloomberg News in early August as an editor-at-large in the Washington bureau.

Franklin, who was the Louis A. Weil Jr. Endowed Chair at IU, will join the center’s National Advisory Board to stay involved with the program he helped launch. He will start at Bloomberg Aug. 8.

The school will begin a national search in August for the new director. Dan Drew, a veteran IU professor and former broadcast journalist, will oversee the program in the interim, said School of Journalism dean Brad Hamm.

“Helping to launch the National Sports Journalism Center at IU, an institution that I care deeply about, was one of the most challenging but rewarding things that I’ve ever done,” Franklin said. “It’s not at all easy for me to leave the school or the students, but I do so knowing that the center is now firmly established as one of the best – if not the best — sports journalism programs in America.”

Franklin said the move allows him to fulfill a lifelong goal of practicing journalism in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining IU in January 2009, Franklin was the editor-in-chief of The Baltimore Sun, and editor of the Orlando Sentinel and the Indianapolis Star.

Read more here. In his new role, Franklin will help develop and execute enterprise stories across Bloomberg Government reporting teams for the organization’s various news outlets and publications.