Bloomberg News Drops Longtime Editor William Ahearn
Bloomberg News has fired its veteran financial editor and newsroom manager, William Ahearn. JimRomenesko.com first reported Ahearn’s dismissal Wednesday.
As the site mentions, Ahearn was editor at Bloomberg, charged with overseeing senior writer A. Craig Copetas, who was based in Paris. Ahearn supervised Copetas’ investigative pieces involving torture and fiscal corruption in the United Arab Emirates. Copetas was also recently fired.
“This is a crime. Been stewing about this since Thursday and getting madder by the hour,” former Bloomberg staffer Wes Richards tells FishbowlNY. “Not
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