Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Published

YankeeFan · Nov 18, 2013

At least Bloomberg still has access to China's locker room.

A reporter for Bloomberg News who worked on an unpublished article about China, which employees for the company said had been killed for political reasons by top Bloomberg editors, was suspended last week by managers.

The reporter, Michael Forsythe, was based in Hong Kong and has written award-winning investigative articles on China. He met with supervisors and was placed on leave, said two Bloomberg employees with knowledge of the situation, which was supposed to be private. The move came days after several news outlets, including The New York Times, published reports quoting unnamed Bloomberg employees saying that top editors, led by Matthew Winkler, the editor in chief, decided in late October not to publish an investigative article because of fears that Bloomberg would be expelled from China.

The article, about a Chinese tycoon and his ties to families of Communist Party leaders, was written by Mr. Forsythe and Shai Oster. Mr. Winkler has denied that the article was killed.

Last week, after the allegations of self-censorship were published, reporters and editors in the Bloomberg bureau in Hong Kong who had worked on the unpublished article were called into a series of meetings, Bloomberg employees said. They were asked questions about the news reports face to face and through conference calls with top editors and executives based in Hong Kong and New York, the employees said.

On Wednesday, Mr. Forsythe, who joined Bloomberg in 2000, was asked to go to the floor where human resources offices are, and he did not return to the newsroom, employees said.

Two representatives of Bloomberg News declined to comment on Sunday. Mr. Forsythe also declined to comment for this story.

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LongTimeListener · Nov 18, 2013

Bloomberg executives clearly know more than they can tell you. But if you heard it, you'd shit. It's that big of a deal. But again, it's not for your eyes or ears.

Armchair_QB · Nov 18, 2013

On Wednesday, Mr. Forsythe, who joined Bloomberg in 2000, was asked to go to the floor where human resources offices are, and he did not return to the newsroom, employees said.
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Well, damn, I hope they let him out eventually.

Batman · Nov 18, 2013

Armchair_QB said:

On Wednesday, Mr. Forsythe, who joined Bloomberg in 2000, was asked to go to the floor where human resources offices are, and he did not return to the newsroom, employees said.
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Well, damn, I hope they let him out eventually.
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Human resources has a back room sweatshop where they force wayward employees to hammer out agate, take high school football call-ins, and retype press releases until they've "seen the error of their ways."

YankeeFan · Nov 18, 2013

LongTimeListener said:

Bloomberg executives clearly know more than they can tell you. But if you heard it, you'd shit. It's that big of a deal. But again, it's not for your eyes or ears.
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Rumors are that China is gay. All the reporters know it, but they can't report it.

fossywriter8 · Nov 18, 2013

I heard they were bullied and sometimes used the NK word.

Batman · Nov 20, 2013

"What happened to you, China? You used to be cool."

YankeeFan · Nov 24, 2013

Times keeps digging at this story:

Champagne flowed last Monday night as Hong Kong’s business elite gathered with top Bloomberg L.P. executives at a dinner for 100 guests at a cultural center in a former British colonial military complex.

Daniel L. Doctoroff, the company’s chief executive and the steward of the business empire behind the wealth of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, had flown in to toast a corporate milestone: In 20 years, sales of Bloomberg’s financial data terminals in Hong Kong had ballooned into a business bringing in more than half a billion dollars a year.

But behind the celebration were some troubling developments. The growth of Bloomberg’s terminal sales worldwide had softened over the last several years, and had dropped significantly in the last year in mainland China, a vast untapped market. Bloomberg News’s tough reporting last year about China had prompted officials to cancel subscriptions for the lucrative terminals, frustrating the company’s Beijing sales staff.

And, just blocks from last week’s celebratory dinner, at the Hong Kong bureau of Bloomberg News, anxious journalists were still dealing with the implications of a decision by top editors weeks earlier not to publish a hard-hitting article about a Chinese tycoon. Bloomberg employees had asserted in published reports that Matthew Winkler, the editor in chief, had justified killing the piece, citing concerns that Bloomberg journalists would be expelled from China in retaliation.

Later that night, just hours after Mr. Doctoroff raised his glass, the company confirmed that one of the writers of the article was no longer an employee.

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