Bloomberg adds five to its investigations team

To all on the Investigations Group,

Bob and I are fired up to inform you about five superb new colleagues becoming a member of our team.

Jessica Brice, a senior editor for Latin American commodities and electrical power tales, joins the workforce as a senior investigative reporter. Jessica, who arrived to Bloomberg Information as a “late night general news reporter” in 2004, had a profitable fellowship with our crew final yr that assisted her report impressive tales on the Amazon Rainforest less than danger in Bolsonaro’s Brazil and how the beef business is fueling the Amazon’s destruction. Jessica will continue on to be centered in Sao Paulo. Her new duties are helpful straight away.

Anthony Cormier joins from BuzzFeed Information, the place he was a senior investigative reporter covering the Trump White Home, the CIA, and world-wide fiscal establishments. In advance of becoming a member of BuzzFeed in 2017, he invested far more than a 10 years as a journalist in Florida. In 2016, he won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting next a collection of tales on the state’s fatal psychiatric hospitals. In 2021, he led a team of journalists who were named as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in worldwide reporting for the FinCEN Data files — stories that revealed how main banks knowingly facilitated transactions for terror groups, narcotraffickers, and other monetary criminals. Anthony will be a senior investigative reporter dependent in New York. His first working day is right now, July 5.

Jason Leopold, also from BuzzFeed News, has two times been a Pulitzer finalist in intercontinental reporting. In 2021, he was also a single of the direct reporters on the massive FinCEN Information reporting venture. In 2018, he was section of a crew that investigated a collection of suspicious fatalities in the Uk and US joined to the Kremlin. Leopold’s award-winning Flexibility of Details Act work has been profiled by dozens of radio, tv, and print shops, and the Transactional Data Entry Clearinghouse, a information exploration organization based mostly at Syracuse College, has identified him as “the most lively individual FOIA litigator in the United States now.” We are thrilled that Jason will be a resource and tutorial for public information reporting across our worldwide newsroom. He’ll be a senior investigative reporter primarily based in Los Angeles. His 1st working day is now.

Kendall Taggart broke tales about the NYPD’s solution misconduct data files, judges who abused their power, and insurance coverage corporations that falsely accused their possess clients of crimes. Most recently, her operate at BuzzFeed exposed abuse and neglect in homes for people with disabilities owned by the non-public equity giant KKR. Her reporting right away prompted several US senators to launch an investigation. She’s been a co-finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, winner of the Barlett & Steele Award for investigative business enterprise journalism, and a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award. She’s also taught at Columbia University’s Graduate University of Journalism. She’ll be a senior investigative reporter dependent in San Francisco. Her initial day will be Sept. 6.

Alex Campbell was an investigations editor for BuzzFeed whose staff uncovered abuses all above the earth — inside care households in Britain, financial institutions in Germany and Cyprus, guardianship courts in Florida and Wyoming, and conservation parks in Nepal and Cameroon. He shepherded a Pulitzer-winning series documenting the scale of China’s mass detention campaign in Xinjiang. He formerly worked as an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News and for the Indianapolis Star, publishing tales that led to changes in Maryland’s rape regulation and assisted totally free two women of all ages from jail. He is a proud south Londoner — or at the very least as proud as any one with an American accent is allowed to be — and the father of a really extroverted 1 calendar year-previous. He’ll be a team chief primarily based in London, and his very first day will be Sept. 6.

These moves stand for a amazing addition of talent to an incredible group that provides a great deal of wonderful get the job done. Be sure to join us in welcoming our new colleagues.

Most effective,

Otis and Bob