Bloomberg News is apologizing for a premature story written last week about the prisoner exchange involving the United States and Russia and says it has disciplined the journalists involved.

Bloomberg News apologized Monday for prematurely publishing a story last week that revealed a prisoner exchange involving the United States and Russia and said it had disciplined the employees involved.

The story moved nearly four hours before an embargo on the exchange was lifted by the White House.

John Micklethwait, Bloomberg’s editor-in-chief, said in a memo to staff Monday that the story represented a clear violation of ethical standards. Bloomberg would not say how many employees were disciplined and did not identify them.

  • @[email protected]
    13•1 month ago

    Fuck you, Bloomberg. That wasn’t a small mistake. The was a journalistic catastrophe. You have no credibility anymore.

    • @SMillerNL
      4•1 month ago

      What do you mean “anymore”? Did they have any left after making up a story about how the Chinese government backdoored every chip without any evidence or sources?

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 month ago

        I wasn’t gonna lean into that one because I didn’t expect most people to know about it, but John Gruber (daringfireball.net) has been going off about that story for years. They’ve been shady in the open for a while now.

        • @SMillerNL
          1•1 month ago

          Yeah, that was my recent reminder of that too.

  • I'm back on my BS 🤪English
    9•1 month ago

    So what was the error? That they published a story 4 hours before the US Fed Govt had authorized disseminating the info?

    • @johker216
      43•1 month ago

      Russia could’ve turned the aircraft around and scuttled the deal. The government wanted the news of the exchange to only take place after the prisoners touched US soil and couldn’t be kidnapped back to Russia.

    • Pumpkin EscobarEnglish
      30•1 month ago

      It’s not uncommon on sensitive stories like this for the government to loop-in journalists ahead of time so they can pull together background and research with an agreed-upon embargo until some point in the future.

      This wasn’t the US government telling the newspaper they couldn’t report on a story they had uncovered from their own investigation.