Bloomberg News hires Boston Globe’s ME

Caleb Solomon will join Bloomberg News as an editor at large for Top News, beginning Monday, June 17, editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler announced Thursday.

Solomon joins Bloomberg News from The Boston Globe, where he has served as managing editor/digital since March 2013. Previously, Solomon was The Globe’s managing editor, where he acted as the newsroom’s chief operating officer and led the team that redesigned the paper. He also headed the organization’s video efforts and helped create BostonGlobe.com. He came to The Globe in 2003 as business editor and became deputy managing editor in 2007.

Solomon began his career at The Wall Street Journal and held several roles with the publication, including stints in New York, Houston, Boston and Brussels.

Solomon spent nearly two years in Brussels for The Wall Street Journal Europe, first as the networking editor overseeing a section devoted to technology, media, marketing and management. He was named page one editor and assistant managing editor of the Journal Europe in November 2001.

Prior to that, Solomon spent almost four years as editor of The Wall Street Journal/New England, a weekly section he launched devoted to breaking regional news. He previously headed Texas Journal, the regional section in Texas for The Wall Street Journal.

Solomon served for eight years as a Journal reporter in Houston, concentrating on the oil industry. Before that, he was a copy editor for The Journal in New York. For several years he also wrote radio and TV copy for various broadcast services of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Journal. He earned his master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

He will report to Bloomberg News executive editor Marty Schenker.