Former BW editor leaves Bloomberg

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Emily Thornton, a former editor at BusinessWeek who joined the Bloomberg finance team at the end of last year to cover private equity when the magazine was acquired by the news service, has now left the company.

Thornton resigned on Wednesday. Within two hours, the Bloomberg terminal said she was no longer with the company.

Before joining the wire, Thornton was a senior writer for the magazine. Previously, she was an associate editor, investment banking editor, and Tokyo correspondent. Before BusinessWeek, she was a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review based in Hong Kong. Prior to that, she was a Tokyo correspondent for Fortune. A Loeb Award and Business Journalist of the Year finalist, she has twice won awards for feature writing from the American Society of Business Publication Editors.

In an e-mail to friends and former co-workers, Thornton wrote, “Later this month, I’m becoming the Director of Research in the corporate risk division of Oliver Wyman, a consulting firm that competes with the likes of McKinsey and BCG. As such, I’ll direct, write and edit research concerning issues of risk to corporations (some financial services), non profits, and countries. I’ll also oversee research projects this division does with groups like the OECD and be part of their work involving developing Sub-Saharan Africa-something I never would have imagined myself having an opportunity to be involved in during my career.

“It has been my great pleasure and privilege to have worked with so many talented people at BusinessWeek over the past 13 years. Please stay in touch and let me know if I can ever be of assistance! Oliver Wyman’s corporate risk practice specializes in advising clients on how to identify, and manage, a very wide range of potential risks to their businesses including stubbornly high unemployment, climate change, volatile commodity prices, and a slower growing China.”

Oliver Wyman has hired a handful of business journalists recently. It hired Peter Edmonston, who helped to create the Dealbook with Andrew Ross Sorkin and served as its editor for three years, from the New York Times. It has also hired Eileen Roche, who was an editor at Harvard Business Review for close to 10 years, and Patrick Clinton, who was editor in chief of Pharmaceutical Executive and editor in chief of the sister publication of Lingua Franca called University Business.