Bloomberg News Sacks 80 Journalists, Including A Critic Of Bloomberg News
While subordinates sent some 80 staff members home for Labor Day weekend never to return, Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait emailed a manifesto to the remaining staff today, laying out a vision for the enterprise that includes “cut[ting] back on lengthy self-indulgent stories.” The memo, which has been obtained by Deadline, is over 3,000 words long. Its message, boiled down, is that &…