Bloomberg senior government editor Otis Bilodeau and govt editor Robert Blau despatched the following memo to Bloomberg’s investigations staff on Tuesday:
To all on the Investigations Group,
Bob and I are enthusiastic to tell you about 5 outstanding new colleagues signing up for our team.
Jessica Brice, a senior editor for Latin American commodities and vitality tales, joins the group as a senior investigative reporter. Jessica, who arrived to Bloomberg News as a “late night basic news reporter” in 2004, had a prosperous fellowship with our workforce final calendar year that helped her report strong tales on the Amazon Rainforest less than risk in Bolsonaro’s Brazil and how the beef market is fueling the Amazon’s destruction. Jessica will carry on to be based in Sao Paulo. Her new responsibilities are helpful instantly.
Anthony Cormier joins from BuzzFeed Information, the place he was a senior investigative reporter masking the Trump White Residence, the CIA, and worldwide economic institutions. Right before becoming a member of BuzzFeed in 2017, he invested far more than a decade as a journalist in Florida. In 2016, he won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting following a collection of stories on the state’s fatal psychiatric hospitals. In 2021, he led a team of journalists who had been named as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for the FinCEN Information — stories that exposed how important banks knowingly facilitated transactions for terror teams, narcotraffickers, and other money criminals. Anthony will be a senior investigative reporter dependent in New York. His to start with day is now, July 5.
Jason Leopold, also from BuzzFeed News, has twice been a Pulitzer finalist in intercontinental reporting. In 2021, he was also one of the lead reporters on the enormous FinCEN Files reporting task. In 2018, he was component of a staff that investigated a series of suspicious fatalities in the United kingdom and US connected to the Kremlin. Leopold’s award-successful Freedom of Facts Act perform has been profiled by dozens of radio, tv, and print retailers, and the Transactional Records Obtain Clearinghouse, a knowledge study firm based mostly at Syracuse University, has recognized him as “the most energetic particular person FOIA litigator in the United States today.” We are thrilled that Jason will be a useful resource and manual for community records reporting across our world newsroom. He’ll be a senior investigative reporter primarily based in Los Angeles. His initially day is right now.
Kendall Taggart broke tales about the NYPD’s solution misconduct information, judges who abused their electrical power, and insurance plan companies that falsely accused their personal consumers of crimes. Most recently, her function at BuzzFeed exposed abuse and neglect in houses for persons with disabilities owned by the non-public fairness big KKR. Her reporting straight away prompted many US senators to launch an investigation. She’s been a co-finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, winner of the Barlett & Steele Award for investigative small business journalism, and a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award. She’s also taught at Columbia University’s Graduate Faculty of Journalism. She’ll be a senior investigative reporter centered in San Francisco. Her to start with working day will be Sept. 6.
Alex Campbell was an investigations editor for BuzzFeed whose team uncovered abuses all above the environment — inside of treatment houses in Britain, financial institutions in Germany and Cyprus, guardianship courts in Florida and Wyoming, and conservation parks in Nepal and Cameroon. He shepherded a Pulitzer-profitable collection documenting the scale of China’s mass detention campaign in Xinjiang. He formerly worked as an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News and for the Indianapolis Star, publishing stories that led to improvements in Maryland’s rape legislation and assisted free two gals from prison. He is a very pleased south Londoner — or at least as happy as anyone with an American accent is authorized to be — and the father of a extremely extroverted a single 12 months-previous. He’ll be a team leader based in London, and his initially day will be Sept. 6.
These moves represent a amazing addition of expertise to an extraordinary group that makes a good deal of fantastic function. You should be part of us in welcoming our new colleagues.
Very best,
Otis and Bob