Bloomberg News hires ME for international government

Ethan Bronner, who is currently deputy national editor for the New York Times, has been hired by Bloomberg News as managing editor for international government.

Bronner has accepted the Times’ buyout offer. His last day there is Dec. 19. He will start at Bloomberg on Jan. 5.

In this new position, Ethan will work with reporters around the world on the big international stories of the day and on investigative and analytical enterprise. He will report to John Fraher, the executive editor for international government, and will be based in New York.

A graduate of Wesleyan University’s College of Letters and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Bronner is a veteran of international reporting. He has been an overseas correspondent in London, Madrid and Brussels and was the New York Times’s deputy foreign editor from 2004 to 2008 and the Times’s bureau chief in Jerusalem between 2008 and 2012.

Bronner began his journalism career at Reuters in 1980, reporting from London, Madrid, Brussels and Jerusalem.

He worked at The Boston Globe for a dozen years, four of them as its legal and Supreme Court correspondent. He is the author of “Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America,” which was named one of the best 25 books of 1989 by The New York Public Library and awarded a Silver Gavel by the American Bar Association.