Laurie Hays Joins Bloomberg as Executive Editor

Laurie Hays, a veteran news executive who helped manage award-winning reporting teams at the Wall Street Journal during the past decade, joins Bloomberg News as Executive Editor for Company News starting August 4.

The appointment of Hays, who during a 23-year career at the newspaper was a Moscow-based correspondent, bureau chief in Atlanta and New York, National News Editor and, most recently, Deputy Managing Editor for Investigative Reporting, "brings exceptional experience in managing beat reporting to our 2,300 journalists in 65 countries," said Matthew Winkler, Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg News.