Bloomberg hires WSJ’s Gruley

Wall Street Journal Chicago bureau chief Bryan Gruley will join Bloomberg News as reporter-at-large in September, Bloomberg News announced Friday.

Gruley will report to Laurie Hays, executive editor for company news, and will focus on feature reporting for Bloomberg Businessweek.

Gruley will join Bloomberg from the Journal where he has spent the last 16 years, most recently as the Chicago bureau chief since January 2005. He began his work at the Journal in Washington where he was a senior editor covering a range of subjects for the front page of the newspaper. He wrote one of the front page stories on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News.

Gruley is the author of two novels, “Starvation Lake” and “The Hanging Tree,” and a forthcoming novel, “The Skeleton Box.” “Starvation Lake” was nominated for an Edgar award and won the Anthony, Barry and Strand awards for Best First Novel. “The Hanging Tree” has been nominated for Anthony and Barry awards to be announced this fall.

Prior to the Journal, he worked from 1987 to 1995 at The Detroit News as a staff writer. He won the 1993 Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and the 1993 Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha book award for his book “Paper Losses,” which explored Gannett and Knight-Ridder’s efforts to win a joint operating agreement between The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press.