Bloomberg rehires NYT’s Gillen; policy unclear

Bloomberg News editor in chief Matthew Winkler sent out the following announcement on Monday:

As part of the expansion of depth reporting on all beats, David Gillen will join Bloomberg Nov. 10 as executive editor for news enterprise, reporting to Laurie Hays.  David will apply his exceptional editing skills to our most important news as well as knit together beat-reporting for enterprise pieces.

David most recently served as the deputy business editor, enterprise, at the New York Times, where he helped oversee the Times’ business news department with a focus on the front-page, long- and short-term enterprise, recruitment, development and budgeting. He also served as the Times’ Sunday business editor, deputy business editor, finance, and finance editor. David helped coordinate the Times’ coverage of the financial crisis, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Prior to the New York Times, David spent fifteen years at Bloomberg News, where he was assistant managing editor for Bloomberg Markets, and earlier managed reporting of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule in 1997 and the 1998 Asian financial crisis as our Hong Kong bureau chief.

David’s career began at Thomson Financial, where he served as a copy editor, reporter and London correspondent.

Bloomberg has long had a policy that it will not hire former employees. A company spokesman declined to comment to Talking Biz News on whether that policy had changed.