Bloomberg hires Roberts as new Washington finance editor

Larry Roberts, the executive editor at the Huffington Post, has resigned to become the finance editor in Washington for Bloomberg News, overseeing coverage of financial reform.

In a going-away e-mail to his staff posted by Gawker’s Ryan Tate, Roberts wrote, “I make this change with much excitement, but I will miss the extraordinary team at the Investigative Fund that has accomplished so much since we opened for business last fall. Your excellent investigative work on the financial crisis and health care, the elegant video documentaries, the fruitful forays into multimedia and citizen journalism — all that has quieted the skeptics about nonprofit journalism and exceeded my hopes for what could be done in the first year.

“But now that the startup is started up, it’s as good as time as any for me to make a change.”

Read more here. Roberts previously worked at The Washington Post as investigations editor, and he was projects editor at the Hartford Courant.

Roberts has been an editor on numerous investigative teams including three that have won the Pulitzer Prize: the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal; the Cheney vice presidency; and the flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope. He is a graduate of Franconia College.