Bloomberg Takes Disciplinary Action Against Staffers For Breaking Embargo On Prisoner Swap Plan To Release Evan Gershkovich And Others

Bloomberg News has taken disciplinary action against staffers responsible for breaking an embargo on a complex prisoner swap plan that secured the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and others. In a memo to staffers, editor-in-chief John Micklethwait wrote that Bloomberg “prematurely published” the story on the planned release of Gershkovich and other […]