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Bloomberg tweets wrong Tourre verdict

The Huffington Post has posted tweets from the main Bloomberg News Twitter feed showing that it initially sent out the wrong ruling in the Fabrice Tourre case.

Here is the wrong tweet:

And his is the later tweet, correcting the wrong tweet:

See the HuffPo story here. Talking Biz News has confirmed that an editor, John Pickering, has left Bloomberg News after putting out the wrong Tourre headline on the Bloomberg terminal.

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.