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Sondag is a little unusual for this media age, in that she’s spent her entire 20-year career with one company, Bloomberg. She’s transitioning to the top job at
by ilamont 6y ago
Sondag is a little unusual for this media age, in that she’s spent her entire 20-year career with one company, Bloomberg. She’s transitioning to the top job at CityLab from a six-year stint as a standards and training editor at Bloomberg.
Bloomberg has a reputation in the media world as being a very conservative company to work for. I have a relative who worked for them, and while the pay and perks were solid (thanks in large part to Bloomberg's successful terminal business) you can never criticize the company once you leave owing to a very restrictive NDA tied to severance.
There is also, as the NYT put it, "an entrenched culture of bullying, where women are often objectified and sometimes face discrimination, according to interviews with more than a dozen former employees, as well as lawsuits and internal corporate documents." (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/business/michael-bloomberg-nda.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/business/michael-bloomber...)
For CityLab supporters, I would be very concerned about the way it's being absorbed into the Bloomberg mother ship. There won't be much independence to ask hard questions when buttoned-down Bloomberg lifers are brought in to keep the kids in line and global multinationals like Hyundai are footing the bill.
- numair 6y agoThat’s a pretty rich comment coming from the New York Times, controlled by different, equally troubling oligarchs, with both known and whispered-about baggage of its own. The fact of the matter is, all of these jobs where others pay you to write can be a bummer if you end up deciding something/someone connected to your workplace is a juicy target for a story. Hence the long-standing tradition of outsiders becoming insiders, and so on, as it has been for all of eternity.
- _mhyx 6y agoWhat’s the whispered about baggage? The CIA connections?
- atlasunshrugged 6y agoYes, please expand here, I didn't even know about the aforementioned CIA connections
- barry-cotter 6y agoCarlos Slim is the reason the NYT made it through the media’s trough of sorrow when they went from trying to be a somewhat objective paper of record to being all partisan all the time. He’s a Mexican billionaire who made his money off of having the political connections to get the mobile phone monopoly. There’s shag all negative coverage of one of the world’s richest men whose wealth was based on clientilism.
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- skizm 6y agoFor the record, once Warren criticized him about the NDAs during his short presidential bid earlier this year, within two days he released all the women he had under NDA from them as well as any current employees who wished to be released (not sure about other former employees).
- bbatsell 6y agoNo, he announced that anyone wishing to be released from an NDA could contact the company “and they’ll be given a release”. He very explicitly did not give a blanket release, and we have no way of knowing whether anyone requested but was not actually granted one, because they would remain under an NDA. (He also deleted the statement as soon as he dropped out of the race, so I have to link to Wayback Machine.) https://web.archive.org/web/20200307041238/https://www.mikebloomberg.com/news/statement-from-mike-bloomberg-on-non-disclosure-agreements https://web.archive.org/web/20200307041238/https://www.mikeb...
- skizm 6y agoI don't get what you're saying. Are you claiming he lied? Based on him deleting a bunch of campaign related pages after he ended his campaign?
- bobthepanda 6y agoWhat the parent comment is saying is that he made a comment that in practice didn't actually amount to anything.
- skizm 6y agoBut he sent out emails to employees saying they just had to email HR and they would be released from their NDAs. I don't understand what more you want?
- bathtub365 6y ago