Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News, originally known as Bloomberg Business News, was co-founded by Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler in one thousand nine hundred ninety to produce financial news reporting to Bloomberg Terminal subscribers. [Trio]
The Bloomberg News agency was established in one thousand nine hundred ninety with a team of six people. [Four] Winkler was very first editor-in-chief. [Five] In 2010, Bloomberg News included more than Two,300 editors and reporters in seventy two countries and one hundred forty six fresh bureaus worldwide. [6] [7]
Creation–1995 Edit
Bloomberg Business News was conceived as a way of expanding the services suggested through the terminals. According to Matthew Winkler, then a writer for the Wall Street Journal, Michael Bloomberg telephoned him in November one thousand nine hundred eighty nine and asked “What would it take to get into the news business?”
Knowing that Bloomberg had no practice in journalism, Winkler introduced him with a hypothetical ethical dilemma:
“You have just published a story that says the chairman — and I mean chairman — of your fattest customer has taken $Five million from the corporate till. He is with his secretary at a Rio de Janeiro resort, and the secretary’s spurned beau calls to peak you off. You get an independent verification that the story is true. Then the phone rings. The customer’s public-relations person says, ‘Kill the story or we will comeback all the terminals we presently rent from you.'”
“What would you do?” Winkler asked.
“Go with the story,” Bloomberg replied. “Our lawyers will love the fees you generate.” [8]
Winkler recalls this as his “determining moment,” the time at which he became willing to help Bloomberg build his news organization. [8]
The purpose of the service was to provide up-to-the-minute financial news communicated in a concise and intelligent way. [9] As a fledgling company in 1990, Bloomberg hoped that the news service would spread the company name, sell more Bloomberg Terminals and end Bloomberg’s reliance on the Dow Jones News Services, a valuable subscriber service for the Terminal. [Ten]
The creation of Bloomberg Business News required Winkler to open a Bloomberg office in Washington, D.C. in order to report about political effects on the business world. However, the Standing Committee of Correspondents (SCC) in Washington required Bloomberg News be formally accredited to act as a legitimate news source, a title that Bloomberg Business News only accomplished after agreeing to provide free terminals to major newspapers in exchange for news space in the publications. [Ten] This accreditation led to an annual growth over 35% until 1995. [Ten] During this growth period Bloomberg News opened a puny television station in Fresh York, purchased Fresh York Radio Station WNEW, launched fifteen-minute weekday business news programs for broadcast on PBS and opened offices in Hong Kong and Frankfurt, Germany. [Ten] By 1995, Bloomberg News had three hundred thirty five reporters in fifty six locations. [11]
1995–2000 Edit
The initial objective of Bloomberg Business News to increase terminal sales was adequately met by the mid-nineties and refocused the scope to their news service in order to rival the profitability of other media groups such as Reuters and Dow Jones. This led to the creation of Bloomberg’s magazine, Bloomberg Private in 1995, which would be carried in the Sunday edition of eighteen U.S. papers. [11] Also in 1995, Bloomberg launched a 24-hour financial news service through Bloomberg Information Television and began wiring its terminals through DirectTV. This at the same time occurred with the launch of a web site to provide audio feed of radio broadcasts. [Ten]
Bloomberg Business News was renamed Bloomberg News in 1997. By this time Bloomberg News content was carried in over eight hundred newspapers worldwide and was syndicated through Bloomberg Television and forty international affiliates. [11]
2000–2014 Edit
In two thousand nine Bloomberg News partnered with The Washington Post to launch a global news service known as The Washington Post News Service with Bloomberg News. Hosting content from both news sources, the service hopes to pair the political practice of The Washington Post with the global financial economic news of Bloomberg News. [12]
In April 2014, Bloomberg News launched a fresh section, Bloomberg Luxury, which concentrates on luxury living. According to an internal memo obtained by WWD, Chris Rovzar, the former digital editor of Vanity Fair, will help Bloomberg build its editorial vision for luxury. [13] The section’s content provides information on topics including travel, wine news, dining, auto news, gadgets, and more. Review of technology and high-end autos are published weekly. It also highlights content from Bloomberg’s quarterly lifestyle and luxury magazine Pursuits. Bloomberg television has been criticized from overseas media claiming that Bloomberg attempts to hire ‘youthfull and pretty people especially women demonstrating their figures in a grotesque manner to increase ratings’.
2015 refocus Edit
A two thousand fifteen “leaked internal memo” by editor-in-chief John Micklethwait indicated an intent to refocus the agency to better target their core audience, “the clever customer who is brief of time”, and better achieve the aim of being “the definitive ‘chronicle of capitalism'”. [Two] This switch would lead to a reduction in reporting on “general interest” topics (e.g. sports) in favor of business and economics topics. [Two]
Bloomberg News received a two thousand twelve George Polk Award for its series of stories about China’s political elite, “Revolution to Riches.” [14] [15]
One story in the series focused on the family wealth of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. [16] Journalist and author Howard W. French reported in the May/June two thousand fourteen issue of the Columbia Journalism Review that prior to publication of the Xi story, high-level Bloomberg officials met with Chinese diplomats twice without informing the journalists who were working on the story. [17]
The very first meeting was inbetween Winkler and Zhang Yesui, the Chinese ambassador to the United States. Zhang is said to have told Winkler, “If Bloomberg publishes this story, bad things will happen for Bloomberg in China. If Bloomberg does not publish the story, good things will happen for Bloomberg.” The 2nd meeting occurred shortly after in Fresh York and included Bloomberg Chairman Peter Grauer, the company’s Chief Executive Daniel Doctoroff, and an unnamed Chinese diplomat.
Around the time of the 2nd meeting, during a lengthy conference call with Bloomberg reporters and editors, Doctoroff insisted on switches in the story that softened its influence by revising the language used to describe the Xi family’s assets. [17]
After the Xi story appeared, terminal sales in China slowed because government officials ordered state enterprises not to subscribe. The Bloomberg News website was also blocked on Chinese servers, and the company was incapable to get visas for journalists it wished to send to China. [Eighteen]
In 2014, Grauer told staff at the Bloomberg Hong Kong bureau that the company’s sales team had done a “heroic job” of mending relations with Chinese officials who had indicated their dissatisfaction about publication of the Xi revelations. He also warned that if Bloomberg “were to do anything like” the Xi story again, the company would “be straight back in the shit-box.” [17]
On October 29, 2013, during a conference call, Winkler told four Bloomberg journalists in Hong Kong that the findings of their major investigation into “the hidden financial ties inbetween one of the wealthiest boys in China and the families of top Chinese leaders” would not be published. Less than a week later, a 2nd planned article “about the children of senior Chinese officials employed by foreign banks,” was also killed, according to Bloomberg employees. [Nineteen]
Unnamed Bloomberg employees quoted by The Fresh York Times said the decision not to publish was made by the company’s top editors, led by Winkler. According to one employee, Winkler said, “If we run the story, we’ll be kicked out of China.” [Nineteen]
When contacted by the Times, Winkler said in an email that neither story had been killed. “‘What you have is untrue,'” he wrote. “‘The stories are active and not spiked.'” Laurie Hays, the senior editor on the articles, “echoed” his statement. Winkler declined to discuss the conference call. [Nineteen]
The Winkler and Hays denials appeared in a story published by the Times on November 8, 2013. At a mayoral news conference four days later, Michael Bloomberg also denied the accusation. He “insisted” that Bloomberg News “did not do that; the editors said that was just not the case.” [20] Noting Winkler’s response to the Times, he added, “No one thinks that we are wusses and not willing to stand up and write stories that are of interest to the public and that are factually correct.” [20] He also said that because he was mayor of Fresh York, he was not involved in the operations of the news agency. “I’ve recused myself from anything to do with the company,” he said. [20]
Three journalists left the company after news reports about the decision appeared — reporter Michael Forsythe, editor and reporter Amanda Bennett, and Ben Richardson, an editor at large for Asia news. [21] [22] Forsythe was the lead writer on the Xi Jinping story. [17] Richardson said, “I left Bloomberg because of the way the story was mishandled, and because of how the company made misleading statements in the global press and senior executives disparaged the team that worked so hard to execute an exceptionally requiring story.” He also said that the company has threatened the journalists who worked on the story with legal act if they discuss the incident publicly. [23]
Taiwan-based Next Media Animation produced an animated cartoon ridiculing Winkler and Michael Bloomberg. [24]
According to French, Bloomberg’s treating of the scene “has tainted its corporate identity and journalism brand to a degree that could last for years.” [17]
Bloomberg L.P. bought weekly business magazine Businessweek from McGraw-Hill in 2009. [25] The company acquired the magazine to attract general business to its media audience composed primarily of terminal subscribers. [26] Following the acquisition, Businessweek was renamed Bloomberg Businessweek. [26]
Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour financial news television network. It was introduced in one thousand nine hundred ninety four as a subscription service transmitted on satellite television provider DirecTV, thirteen hours a day, seven days a week. [27] In 1995, the network entered the cable television market and by 2000, Bloomberg’s 24-hour news programming was being aired to two hundred million households. [28] Justin Smith serves as CEO of the Bloomberg Media Group which includes Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Television and mobile, online and advertising supported components of Bloomberg’s media offerings. [29]
Originally launched in July one thousand nine hundred ninety two under the title Bloomberg: A Magazine for Bloomberg Users, Bloomberg Markets was a monthly magazine given to all Bloomberg Professional Service subscribers. [30] In addition to providing international financial news to industry professionals, the magazine included points for navigating terminal functionality. In 2010, the magazine was redesigned in an effort to update its readership beyond terminal users. [31] Ron Henkoff has served as editor of Bloomberg Markets since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine [32] and Michael Dukmejian has served as the magazine’s publisher since 2009. [33]
Bloomberg View is an editorial division of Bloomberg News which launched in May 2011, and provides content from columnists, authors and editors about current news issues. [34] David Shipley, former op-ed page editor at The Fresh York Times, is Bloomberg View’s executive editor. [35]
Bloomberg Politics provides political coverage via digital, print and broadcast media. [36] [37] [38] The multimedia venture, which debuted in October 2014, featured the daily television news program With All Due Respect, hosted by Bloomberg Politics Managing Editors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. [38] The program came to an end on December two 2016. [39] [40]
In 2016, Bloomberg Politics began producing a documentary on the two thousand sixteen US presidential election called The Circus: Inwards the Greatest Political Display on Earth. [41]
Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News, originally known as Bloomberg Business News, was co-founded by Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler in one thousand nine hundred ninety to supply financial news reporting to Bloomberg Terminal subscribers. [Three]
The Bloomberg News agency was established in one thousand nine hundred ninety with a team of six people. [Four] Winkler was very first editor-in-chief. [Five] In 2010, Bloomberg News included more than Two,300 editors and reporters in seventy two countries and one hundred forty six fresh bureaus worldwide. [6] [7]
Creation–1995 Edit
Bloomberg Business News was conceived as a way of expanding the services suggested through the terminals. According to Matthew Winkler, then a writer for the Wall Street Journal, Michael Bloomberg telephoned him in November one thousand nine hundred eighty nine and asked “What would it take to get into the news business?”
Knowing that Bloomberg had no practice in journalism, Winkler introduced him with a hypothetical ethical dilemma:
“You have just published a story that says the chairman — and I mean chairman — of your thickest customer has taken $Five million from the corporate till. He is with his secretary at a Rio de Janeiro resort, and the secretary’s spurned beau calls to peak you off. You get an independent verification that the story is true. Then the phone rings. The customer’s public-relations person says, ‘Kill the story or we will comeback all the terminals we presently rent from you.'”
“What would you do?” Winkler asked.
“Go with the story,” Bloomberg replied. “Our lawyers will love the fees you generate.” [8]
Winkler recalls this as his “determining moment,” the time at which he became willing to help Bloomberg build his news organization. [8]
The purpose of the service was to provide up-to-the-minute financial news communicated in a concise and intelligent way. [9] As a fledgling company in 1990, Bloomberg hoped that the news service would spread the company name, sell more Bloomberg Terminals and end Bloomberg’s reliance on the Dow Jones News Services, a valuable subscriber service for the Terminal. [Ten]
The creation of Bloomberg Business News required Winkler to open a Bloomberg office in Washington, D.C. in order to report about political effects on the business world. However, the Standing Committee of Correspondents (SCC) in Washington required Bloomberg News be formally accredited to act as a legitimate news source, a title that Bloomberg Business News only accomplished after agreeing to provide free terminals to major newspapers in exchange for news space in the publications. [Ten] This accreditation led to an annual growth over 35% until 1995. [Ten] During this growth period Bloomberg News opened a petite television station in Fresh York, purchased Fresh York Radio Station WNEW, launched fifteen-minute weekday business news programs for broadcast on PBS and opened offices in Hong Kong and Frankfurt, Germany. [Ten] By 1995, Bloomberg News had three hundred thirty five reporters in fifty six locations. [11]
1995–2000 Edit
The initial purpose of Bloomberg Business News to increase terminal sales was adequately met by the mid-nineties and refocused the scope to their news service in order to rival the profitability of other media groups such as Reuters and Dow Jones. This led to the creation of Bloomberg’s magazine, Bloomberg Private in 1995, which would be carried in the Sunday edition of eighteen U.S. papers. [11] Also in 1995, Bloomberg launched a 24-hour financial news service through Bloomberg Information Television and began wiring its terminals through DirectTV. This at the same time occurred with the launch of a web site to provide audio feed of radio broadcasts. [Ten]
Bloomberg Business News was renamed Bloomberg News in 1997. By this time Bloomberg News content was carried in over eight hundred newspapers worldwide and was syndicated through Bloomberg Television and forty international affiliates. [11]
2000–2014 Edit
In two thousand nine Bloomberg News partnered with The Washington Post to launch a global news service known as The Washington Post News Service with Bloomberg News. Hosting content from both news sources, the service hopes to pair the political practice of The Washington Post with the global financial economic news of Bloomberg News. [12]
In April 2014, Bloomberg News launched a fresh section, Bloomberg Luxury, which concentrates on luxury living. According to an internal memo obtained by WWD, Chris Rovzar, the former digital editor of Vanity Fair, will help Bloomberg build its editorial vision for luxury. [13] The section’s content provides information on topics including travel, wine news, dining, auto news, gadgets, and more. Review of technology and high-end autos are published weekly. It also highlights content from Bloomberg’s quarterly lifestyle and luxury magazine Pursuits. Bloomberg television has been criticized from overseas media claiming that Bloomberg attempts to hire ‘youthfull and pretty people especially women demonstrating their figures in a grotesque manner to increase ratings’.
2015 refocus Edit
A two thousand fifteen “leaked internal memo” by editor-in-chief John Micklethwait indicated an intent to refocus the agency to better target their core audience, “the clever customer who is brief of time”, and better achieve the aim of being “the definitive ‘chronicle of capitalism'”. [Two] This switch would lead to a reduction in reporting on “general interest” topics (e.g. sports) in favor of business and economics topics. [Two]
Bloomberg News received a two thousand twelve George Polk Award for its series of stories about China’s political elite, “Revolution to Riches.” [14] [15]
One story in the series focused on the family wealth of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. [16] Journalist and author Howard W. French reported in the May/June two thousand fourteen issue of the Columbia Journalism Review that prior to publication of the Xi story, high-level Bloomberg officials met with Chinese diplomats twice without informing the journalists who were working on the story. [17]
The very first meeting was inbetween Winkler and Zhang Yesui, the Chinese ambassador to the United States. Zhang is said to have told Winkler, “If Bloomberg publishes this story, bad things will happen for Bloomberg in China. If Bloomberg does not publish the story, good things will happen for Bloomberg.” The 2nd meeting occurred shortly after in Fresh York and included Bloomberg Chairman Peter Grauer, the company’s Chief Executive Daniel Doctoroff, and an unnamed Chinese diplomat.
Around the time of the 2nd meeting, during a lengthy conference call with Bloomberg reporters and editors, Doctoroff insisted on switches in the story that softened its influence by revising the language used to describe the Xi family’s assets. [17]
After the Xi story appeared, terminal sales in China slowed because government officials ordered state enterprises not to subscribe. The Bloomberg News website was also blocked on Chinese servers, and the company was incapable to get visas for journalists it dreamed to send to China. [Legal]
In 2014, Grauer told staff at the Bloomberg Hong Kong bureau that the company’s sales team had done a “heroic job” of mending relations with Chinese officials who had indicated their dissatisfaction about publication of the Xi revelations. He also warned that if Bloomberg “were to do anything like” the Xi story again, the company would “be straight back in the shit-box.” [17]
On October 29, 2013, during a conference call, Winkler told four Bloomberg journalists in Hong Kong that the findings of their major investigation into “the hidden financial ties inbetween one of the wealthiest guys in China and the families of top Chinese leaders” would not be published. Less than a week later, a 2nd planned article “about the children of senior Chinese officials employed by foreign banks,” was also killed, according to Bloomberg employees. [Nineteen]
Unnamed Bloomberg employees quoted by The Fresh York Times said the decision not to publish was made by the company’s top editors, led by Winkler. According to one employee, Winkler said, “If we run the story, we’ll be kicked out of China.” [Nineteen]
When contacted by the Times, Winkler said in an email that neither story had been killed. “‘What you have is untrue,'” he wrote. “‘The stories are active and not spiked.'” Laurie Hays, the senior editor on the articles, “echoed” his statement. Winkler declined to discuss the conference call. [Nineteen]
The Winkler and Hays denials appeared in a story published by the Times on November 8, 2013. At a mayoral news conference four days later, Michael Bloomberg also denied the accusation. He “insisted” that Bloomberg News “did not do that; the editors said that was just not the case.” [20] Noting Winkler’s response to the Times, he added, “No one thinks that we are wusses and not willing to stand up and write stories that are of interest to the public and that are factually correct.” [20] He also said that because he was mayor of Fresh York, he was not involved in the operations of the news agency. “I’ve recused myself from anything to do with the company,” he said. [20]
Three journalists left the company after news reports about the decision appeared — reporter Michael Forsythe, editor and reporter Amanda Bennett, and Ben Richardson, an editor at large for Asia news. [21] [22] Forsythe was the lead writer on the Xi Jinping story. [17] Richardson said, “I left Bloomberg because of the way the story was mishandled, and because of how the company made misleading statements in the global press and senior executives disparaged the team that worked so hard to execute an amazingly requesting story.” He also said that the company has threatened the journalists who worked on the story with legal act if they discuss the incident publicly. [23]
Taiwan-based Next Media Animation produced an animated cartoon ridiculing Winkler and Michael Bloomberg. [24]
According to French, Bloomberg’s treating of the gig “has tainted its corporate identity and journalism brand to a degree that could last for years.” [17]
Bloomberg L.P. bought weekly business magazine Businessweek from McGraw-Hill in 2009. [25] The company acquired the magazine to attract general business to its media audience composed primarily of terminal subscribers. [26] Following the acquisition, Businessweek was renamed Bloomberg Businessweek. [26]
Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour financial news television network. It was introduced in one thousand nine hundred ninety four as a subscription service transmitted on satellite television provider DirecTV, thirteen hours a day, seven days a week. [27] In 1995, the network entered the cable television market and by 2000, Bloomberg’s 24-hour news programming was being aired to two hundred million households. [28] Justin Smith serves as CEO of the Bloomberg Media Group which includes Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Television and mobile, online and advertising supported components of Bloomberg’s media offerings. [29]
Originally launched in July one thousand nine hundred ninety two under the title Bloomberg: A Magazine for Bloomberg Users, Bloomberg Markets was a monthly magazine given to all Bloomberg Professional Service subscribers. [30] In addition to providing international financial news to industry professionals, the magazine included points for navigating terminal functionality. In 2010, the magazine was redesigned in an effort to update its readership beyond terminal users. [31] Ron Henkoff has served as editor of Bloomberg Markets since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine [32] and Michael Dukmejian has served as the magazine’s publisher since 2009. [33]
Bloomberg View is an editorial division of Bloomberg News which launched in May 2011, and provides content from columnists, authors and editors about current news issues. [34] David Shipley, former op-ed page editor at The Fresh York Times, is Bloomberg View’s executive editor. [35]
Bloomberg Politics provides political coverage via digital, print and broadcast media. [36] [37] [38] The multimedia venture, which debuted in October 2014, featured the daily television news program With All Due Respect, hosted by Bloomberg Politics Managing Editors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. [38] The program came to an end on December two 2016. [39] [40]
In 2016, Bloomberg Politics began producing a documentary on the two thousand sixteen US presidential election called The Circus: Inwards the Greatest Political Showcase on Earth. [41]
