Bloomberg’s Childs off to the FT

Bloomberg News reporter Mary Childs sent this email to her friends and colleagues on Friday:

After six long and incredibly short years, today is my last day at Bloomberg News.

I started here as an intern in 2009, just trying to keep my head above water on the stocks team. I landed on the CDS beat in the summer of 2010, because I didn’t understand what they were, so it seemed interesting, and also you had to be in at 7:45 am instead of at 7 am for the corporate bond new issue beat. But I was lucky to have brilliant and endlessly patient teammates and colleagues and editors and friends, so I got to realize that being in the tranches (still my favorite pun) digging things up and telling people about it was fun, rewarding, and societally important. There is no better job than what we do.

Thank you for being brilliant and endlessly patient, and for doing what you do. You are an exceptional crew, and it’s been a pleasure and an honor working with you and learning from you for these past 6 years.

Please stay in touch!

Childs will be a U.S. financial correspondent, focusing on private equity and hedge funds.