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Bloomberg puts First Word briefing on Google Assistant

Bloomberg’s audio news briefing is now available on Google Assistant, which includes Google Home and the Google Assistant App.

Consumers can listen to business news with Bloomberg First Word news briefing by asking Google to “play Bloomberg First Word,” or by adding Bloomberg as a news source through the Google Assistant App.

The Bloomberg First Word briefing provides global business news in less than three minutes and is available on weekdays with updates throughout the day.

Bloomberg First Word is also available on Amazon’s Alexa as a flash briefing in both video and audio formats.

It is also available on Apple devices via Siri, including HomePod, with Bloomberg’s “Market Minute” Siri audio brief.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.