Bloomberg looks to repair relations with DC staff

Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait has dispatched chief content officer Josh Tyrangiel and senior executive Eeitor Marty Schenker to fix the discord between Bloomberg’s Washington and New York political news staffs, reports Hadas Gold of Politico.

Gold reports, “For the next three months, Tyrangiel and Schenker will go through all of Bloomberg’s coverage and rethink how they spend resources, namely the Bloomberg Washington bureau staff and the politics team based in New York. The two visited the D.C. bureau on Friday to meet with staff.

“‘When I spoke to many of you a month ago, I talked candidly about the need to improve our coverage of American government and politics – and my feeling that the many different parts of Editorial have not been working together closely enough,’ Micklethwait wrote in a memo to staff on Thursday. ‘Josh and Marty will not just look at our editorial standards but will ask broader questions about what we cover and why. We want your ideas, input and suggestions.’

“There has been longstanding tension between Bloomberg Politics in New York, run by ‘Game Change’ authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann and Bloomberg’s Washington bureau. Bloomberg has also suffered through a few embarrassing mishaps, including falling for a fake Nancy Reagan story, photo shopping Hillary Clinton and reporting that Mitt Romney was going to run for president.”

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