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Bloomberg Takes Disciplinary Action Against Staffers For Breaking Embargo On Prisoner Swap Plan To Release Evan Gershkovich And Others
The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich was part of the prisoner swap.
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 prisoners on Thursday. “Even if our story mercifully ended up making no difference, it was a clear violation of the editorial standards which have made this newsroom so trusted around the world,” he wrote.
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