Kevin Dugan of The New York Post writes about the mood at Bloomberg News.
Dugan writes, “The morale was made worse when Bloomberg brass shunted aside some of its top Washington reporters, like Annie Linskey and Jeanne Cummings, as the former mayor pressed for an expansion of a New York-based politics team.
“The reporters there resented that they had to answer to two of the editors who were seen as instrumental in pushing out their colleagues.
“‘My very capable friend’s out and now you want me to bare my soul to you? No way’ another Bloomberg employee said, summing up the DC bureau’s frustration.
“Tyrangiel, a favorite of the former mayor, is catching much of the blame for the unrest.
“‘People are starting to make bets on how long he’s goi’ng to last,’ a Bloomberg veteran told The Post, estimating that he’d last around two years. ‘You can’t be so universally hated among the rank and file and last long.'”
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