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Bloomberg News took disciplinary action Monday against a “number” of its staffers after the outlet broke an embargo last week on news of the release of several American prisoners held by Russia, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
In a memo sent to the outlet’s staff on Monday and obtained by CNN, Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait wrote that an initial story, published at 7:41 a.m. ET Thursday, reporting Gershkovich had been released as part of a historic US-Russia prisoner exchange was posted “prematurely.”
Bloomberg’s reporting “could have endangered the negotiated swap
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