Katherine Snyder leaving Bloomberg

Katherine Snyder, deputy senior executive editor for beat reporting overseeing breaking news across all beats, is leaving the company to spend more time raising her children before finding a new challenge.

Prior to her current role, she built Bloomberg’s global deals team, running coverage of mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, bankruptcies and restructuring and assembled an all-star team of reporters and editors.

She began her Bloomberg career in Europe, where she spent 10 years as a companies and banking reporter in Frankfurt and London, and then led the European finance team, overseeing coverage of the region’s banks, insurers, and investment firms.

Snyder graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1997 and was a Fulbright scholar in Vienna, Austria.

In a memo to the newsroom, Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait bid farewell to Snyder:

Sadly, after 17 years with Bloomberg, Katherine Snyder has decided to leave us. She began as an intern in the Vienna office back in 1998 – and since then she has worked in Frankfurt, London and New York, including spells as the managing editor for M&A where she set up our deals team, and most recently as the executive editor on beat reporting. Over that time she has gathered many friends and countless plaudits. She now wants to spend more time with her children, before finding a new challenge. Katherine asked for no fuss to be made about her departure, so we won’t have a big goodbye, but I will host a dinner for her in early January.