Laurie Hays Joins Bloomberg as Executive Editor for Company News

Appointment of former Wall Street Journal Editor and Reporter Enhances Global
Corporate Beat Reporting in 135 Bureaus

NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Laurie Hays, a veteran news executive
who helped manage award-winning reporting teams at the Wall Street Journal
during the past decade, joins Bloomberg News as Executive Editor for Company
News starting August 4.
The appointment of Hays, who during a 23-year career at the newspaper was
a Moscow-based correspondent, bureau chief in Atlanta and New York, National
News Editor and, most recently, Deputy Managing Editor for Investigative
Reporting, "brings exceptional experience in managing beat reporting to our
2,300 journalists in 65 countries," said Matthew Winkler, Editor-in-Chief of
Bloomberg News.
"This is the perfect opportunity to expand the management team so we can
devote more direction to developing depth reporting for the dozens of
industries we report on daily."
"I am very excited to be joining Bloomberg. I have long admired its high
journalistic standards, global reach and multimedia approach to delivering
news," Hays said. "This is clearly an exciting time in the growth of
Bloomberg News. I am happy to be part of such an inspired and forward-looking
organization."
Hays supervised several reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize,
Scripps Howard and Gerald Loeb awards during the past decade. She is a
graduate of Harvard College and worked previously as a reporter for the New
Orleans States Item/Times Picayune and the Wilmington News Journal of
Delaware.
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