Bloomberg to return as CEO of his company

Michael Bloomberg

Michael R. Bloomberg has decided to re-assume the leadership of his business empire only eight months after ending his final term as mayor of New York, reports Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times.

Sorkin writes, “Late Wednesday, Mr. Bloomberg told close confidants and senior executives of Bloomberg L.P., a financial data and media company, that Daniel L. Doctoroff, its chief executive and a longtime friend and lieutenant, would leave the company at the end of the year and that he would take over.

“For years, Mr. Bloomberg had insisted that he had no intention of returning full time to the company he founded.

“When he left politics, Mr. Bloomberg, 72, was expected to devote most of his time to giving away his $32.8 billion fortune. Those philanthropic efforts — on issues like gun control, immigration and public health — were supposed to take up much of his time and he would ‘most likely spend a few hours a day working from his new desk on the fifth floor,’ at Bloomberg’s offices, according to a memo Mr. Doctoroff sent employees in January.”

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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.