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Bloomberg News said it had taken “disciplinary action” against a number of its editorial staff after the outlet “prematurely” published news of the historic prisoner swap between Russia and the United States last week that it said could have endangered the safety of the Americans being released.

In an email to staff on Monday, editor-in-chief John Micklethwait wrote that a number of staff members had been disciplined, although the company did not say who, how many or what their punishment had been. At least one reporter on the story appears to have been fired in a rare case where a journalist was punished for a decision to publish a major news story that would likely have been reviewed by senior editors at the outlet.

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[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah ... really holding up your values when you fire a reporter who had exactly zero responsibility in publishing an article.

Fucking dipshits are running Bloomberg.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well yeah, but what makes you think they're not upholding their actual values?

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

True. I'm just an idiot sometimes, when I hope for the best.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 25 points 1 month ago

So the guy was told to write the story, some editor pushed the button and published it, and they fired the guy who wrote the story. Fuck this shit.

[–] Bell@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Scapegoat identified and sacrificed, now on to the wait for blow over phase.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

I bet they definitely weren't under any pressure before this happened. Upper management not guilty for the 11 billionth time in a row.

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

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