23 Facts About Bloomberg News

1.

Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.

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2.

Bloomberg News was founded by Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler in 1990 to deliver financial news reporting to Bloomberg Terminal subscribers.

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3.

In 2010, Bloomberg News included more than 2, 300 editors and reporters in 72 countries and 146 news bureaus worldwide.

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4.

Bloomberg Business News was created to expand the services offered through the terminals.

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5.

Bloomberg News is with his secretary at a Rio de Janeiro resort, and the secretary's spurned boyfriend calls to tip you off.

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6.

However, the Standing Committee of Correspondents 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.

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In 1994, Bloomberg launched a 24-hour financial news service through Bloomberg Information Television, which was broadcast on DirecTV.

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8.

Bloomberg News launched a web site to provide the audio feed of its radio broadcasts.

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9.

Bloomberg News uses a metered paywall to charge visitors for content, limiting users to view 10 free articles per month with unlimited re-read option, and 30 minutes of Bloomberg News Television watch per day with reset at local midnight time.

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10.

In November 2019, as Michael Bloomberg News announced his presidential campaign, editor-in-chief John Micklethwait ordered his staff not to investigate their boss, nor any other Democratic candidates, while investigations into Donald Trump would continue, "as the government of the day".

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11.

Bloomberg News suspended his campaign on March 4, 2020, the day after Super Tuesday.

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12.

Bloomberg News received a 2012 George Polk Award for its series of stories about China's political elite, "Revolution to Riches.

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13.

Zhang is said to have told Winkler, "If Bloomberg News publishes this story, bad things will happen for Bloomberg News in China.

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14.

The Bloomberg News website was blocked on Chinese servers, and the company was unable to get visas for journalists it wanted to send to China.

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15.

Bloomberg News warned that if Bloomberg "were to do anything like" the Xi story again, the company would "be straight back in the shit-box.

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16.

Unnamed Bloomberg News employees quoted by The New York Times said the decision not to publish was made by the company's top editors, led by Winkler.

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17.

Bloomberg News "insisted" that Bloomberg News "did not do that; the editors said that was just not the case.

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18.

The AMF said Bloomberg News distributed "information that it should have known was false" and that Bloomberg News did not respect journalistic ethics "as no verification of the information was undertaken before publication".

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19.

Bloomberg News acquired the magazine to attract general business to its media audience composed primarily of terminal subscribers.

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20.

Bloomberg Opinion, formerly 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.

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21.

Bloomberg News Politics provides political coverage via digital, print and broadcast media.

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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.

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23.

In 2016, Bloomberg News Politics produced a documentary on the 2016 US presidential election called The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth.

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