Chapter 12How We Work

Success Requires Bloomberg News journalists to collaborate across teams and time zones. It’s not uncommon for a company news reporter working on a story in New York to contact colleagues in London or Hong Kong for background information or help with local interviews. The editor of the story may enlist colleagues who write about bonds or commodities to tap their knowledge of markets.

The resulting story then becomes something that can be published on the Bloomberg terminal, turned into bullet points for a First Word article, discussed on Bloomberg Television and printed in Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. In this example, a Bloomberg TV reporter and print journalists covering banks and the bond market combined efforts ...

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