Daniel Hertzberg Joins BLOOMBERG NEWS

Bloomberg Hires Daniel Hertzberg in New York; Jonathan Kaufman, Daniel Golden in Boston; Anita Sharpe in Atlanta

NEW YORK, July 1 /PRNewswire/ — Daniel Hertzberg, a Pulitzer Prize winning editor and reporter at The Wall Street Journal for more than three decades, joins the BLOOMBERG NEWS(R) service as senior editor-at-large in New York as part of Bloomberg’s global expansion in markets, finance and regional business news.

“Dan Hertzberg sets the standard for global news judgment and has few peers embodying the best practices of journalism,” said BLOOMBERG NEWS Editor-in-Chief Matthew Winkler.

Hertzberg, who will report to Winkler, said, “I’m happy to be joining one of the world’s most exciting news organizations that is setting standards in the new world of journalism.”

The BLOOMBERG NEWS service has also hired Jonathan Kaufman, a Pulitzer Prize winning editor and writer, and Daniel Golden, a Pulitzer Prize winner for Beat Reporting, in Boston; and Anita Sharpe, a Pulitzer Prize winner for National Reporting, in Atlanta.

Kaufman and Golden will report to Laurie Hays, executive editor for companies. Sharpe will report to John McCorry, executive editor for the Americas.

Since it began in 1990 under Winkler’s leadership, the BLOOMBERG NEWS service has grown to more than 1,500 editors and reporters in 145 bureaus, producing more than 5,000 stories daily, and winning 455 awards including the 2009 Gerald Loeb award for News Service and the George Polk Award.

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