From TalkingBizNews, October 22:
Bloomberg News has hired Felix Salmon as a senior writer.
He waschief financial correspondent at Axios before leaving at the end of May.
He wrote Axios Markets on the weekend, going in-depth on all the ways that money drives the world. Salmon has been with Axios since August 2018.
He previously was a senior editor at Fusion and also spent five years at Reuters. Salmon also worked for the now-defunct Conde Nast Portfolio....
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If interested see also:
April 2011 - "Ben Stein Prefers Mutual Funds To Hedge Funds, Feels The Need To Note He Doesn’t Support Insider Trading"
As Reuters' Felix Salmon said:
The despicable Ben Stein
How low can Ben Stein get? Well, we know he’ll sell himself to sleazy rip-off merchants if the price is right. But now he’s penned an anti-Obama column for The American Spectator which is so despicable that it fairly takes one’s breath away....I don't care so much about Ben's politics, he was a speechwriter for President Nixon if that gives you a clue. It's the fact that the guy is a freakin' poseur on topics economic or financial. More after the jump.....
August 2018 - Media: "With Felix Salmon, Axios Continues Its Push to Commandeer the Bloomberg Set"
Previously on Felix:
Catfishin': Creating Felix Salmon and the What, Why and How He Got Paid What He Got Paid
Reuters' Felix Salmon is the Columbia Journalism Review’s New Peter G. Peterson Fellow
Felix Salmon Reviews Martin Wolf's "The Shifts and Shocks"
Tart, bordering on acidic.
And from a 2010 post:
...For those who don't follow this stuff [he means people who have a life -ed] there was a dust-up between Felix and Henry a couple months ago.*
*Felix: "Kicked out of finance, and into journalism"
Henry: "Felix Salmon: Henry Blodget Should Be Banned From The Industry"
Felix: "Disclosing journalists’ pasts"
New York Magazine: "Financial Bloggers Felix Salmon and Henry Blodget Have a Fight, Make Up"
And completely off-topic:
Bond Guru Martin Fridson Erroneously Refers To The Financial Times As "Salmon Colored"
