Veteran reporter Michael Forsythe confirmed on Twitter that he has left Bloomberg News. Last week, the New York Post reported that Forsythe was fired for talking to the New York Times about a lengthy investigation into Chinese leaders. That story was killed because Bloomberg feared losing terminal sales in China.
Bloomberg Cans Reporter Who Talked About Editors Killing China Story
Bloomberg News is clearing house in the wake of a series of embarrassing leaks that revealed the would-be news agency killed stories to win the favor of the Chinese government.
Billionaires are Ditching Their Yachts for Submarines
Yachts: So pedestrian, right? They just float there, bobbing up and down. According to Bloomberg News, founded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, billionaires are disowning their giant yachts for personal submarines, priced between $1.2 and $4.5 million. Why? Bloomberg explains:
The Hidden Dossiers Bloomberg Reporters Keep on Powerful Clients
If you are an influential user of a Bloomberg terminal—the $24,000-per-year glorified computers that the company sells to Wall Street trading firms, politicians, and banks—there's a chance the company's news division has a file on you that's chock full of personal information about your family, your predilections, and…
Bloomberg Fixer Quit Days Before Spy Scandal Broke
Just before scandal broke about Bloomberg reporters using private data from the company's ubiquitous terminals, Charles Glasser, an in-house lawyer responsible for training editors and reporters at Bloomberg News, announced his departure after 12 years with the company.
Source: Bloomberg Was Supposed to Cut Off Spying Last Year, But Didn't
A high-ranking newsroom official for Bloomberg News was ordered last year to cut off reporters' access to information about how clients used the company's information terminals, according to a former Bloomberg reporter, but the spying continued anyway. The order followed complaints from JPMorgan Chase that Bloomberg…
"When you see the headline 'Courageous Senators Stand Up to American People' or 'Facebook Unveils New Waste of Time,' you know you’re reading Andy Borowitz." Can't argue with that.
Turn Your iPad Into a Futuristic News Portal
Magazines that spring to life with video. Gorgeous, instantly-updated newspapers. Custom-tailored broadcasts. The iPad could revolutionize news along these lines, which helps explain why it makes people so giddy. The new era begins with these nine news apps.
Friends Forever!
Bloomberg and the WaPo have struck a content deal that will shame the LA Times.
Dismantling The Bloomberg Way
We're hearing from inside Bloomberg News that the newswire is chopping up the Bloomberg Way, the cultish journalism guide assembled by tyrannical editor Matthew Winkler. Winkler believed in the manifesto so deeply he used it to raise his teenaged sons, and its rigid prescriptions became gospel. But what was once a…
How Robots Destroyed United Airlines
Yesterday the stock market destruction of United Airlines looked like just another case of bumbling by the Bloomberg news wire. That still appears to be very much correct, but new details tell a larger and more sinister story — a conspiracy of robots to nuke United Airlines by duping one or two humans into acting as…
Winkler Inflicted 'Bloomberg Way' On Teen Boys
Journalists have long pitied those colleagues who suffer under the yoke of Michael Bloomberg henchman Matthew Winkler. A style guide put together by the wire service boss-a program to reeducate journalists by the cultish name of the 'Bloomberg Way'-forbids the use of but and pretty much any other word which might…
Ritualistic Self-Flensing Ends at Bloomberg News
The days of the "autopsy"—what former employees describe as "Maoist self-criticism" sessions in which reporters explained to a roomful of people what the fuck was so wrong with their article that it didn't get picked up for syndication—are over at Bloomberg News. Screamy bow-tied Bloomberg EIC Matt Winkler instituted…
