NYPost: Bloomberg is hiring

Bloomberg News has been on a hiring spree, according to an item in the New York Post. In the first six months of the year, it hired 130 new journalists, and the target was 150. No word, however, on whether those hires were replacing people who left or were new positions.

Keith Kelly wrote, “Commodities, energy and emerging markets have been growth markets, but so is arts coverage in New York and political coverage in Washington.

“Chris Nagi, managing editor of The Street.com, is about to join as a stock markets editor.

“Bloomberg also began pushing global arts coverage under Manuela Holterhoff, the ex-Wall Street Journal reporter who heads something called Bloomberg Muse, which delivers news as well as a television program on weekends.

“‘It was nonexistent a few years ago, and now there are at least a dozen staffers and a dozen freelancers who write about the arts,’ said [Editor in chief Matt] Winkler.

“Among the hires on the political and economic front are a number of high-profile refugees from print publications: Roger Simon and Matt Benjamin, who left Mort Zuckerman’s rapidly sinking U.S. News & World Report, and Lee Walczak and Rich Miller, both formerly with BusinessWeek.

“Seth Lubove, former Los Angeles Bureau Chief of Forbes, is now L.A. bureau chief of Bloomberg News and also works on Bloomberg Markets magazine.”

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