Bloomberg News’s editor in chief said on Monday that the publication had disciplined multiple journalists involved in breaking an embargo last week tied to the major prisoner swap, in what he said was “a clear violation of the editorial standards.”John Micklethwait, the newsroom’s top editor, said in an email to its staff that Bloomberg had disciplined the people after an investigation by the organization’s standards editor into how the embargo, which was set by the Biden administration, was broken.
He said Bloomberg would “be reviewing our processes to ensure that failures like this don’t happen again.”The email did not specify what the disciplinary actions were or who they involved.
Bloomberg published an article at 7:41 a.m. on Thursday detailing the complicated prisoner exchange that resulted in the release of Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the The Wall Street Journal, and many others.
Jennifer Jacobs, a senior White House reporter who had the first byline on the article, has left the company, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
An editor involved in the story was demoted, according to two other people.
Persons:
John Micklethwait, Biden, “, Evan Gershkovich, Jennifer Jacobs
Organizations:
Bloomberg, Street Journal, White House