NY Observer reported hired by Bloomberg

Max Abelson, a reporter for the New York Observer, has been hired by Bloomberg News to join the finance team.

Abelson currently covers Wall Street for the weekly. He previously covered real estate for the paper, which he joined right out of college after an internship.

Abelson writes on his blog: “I’m going to be writing profiles of the characters who populate the landscape of power in this post-crisis New York. (sometimes the stories will go into Businessweek — which Bloomberg bought, and has been looking wonderful). I’ll be able to do extraordinary work, I can feel it. I couldn’t be sorrier to leave, and couldn’t be more excited to start.”

Abelson has worked at the Observer for the past four years. He has a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale University, where he worked for the Yale Daily News.