OXONIAN: John Micklethwait of Bloomberg News

John Micklethwait

John Micklethwait was featured in The NY Times print edition today (yesterday online) as Editor in Chief of Bloomberg News. He has been in his job now for more than a year, having spanned Michael Bloomberg's 73rd and 74th birthdays.

Mr. Micklethwait was educated at Ampleforth College, an upscale English boarding school, and subsequently at the University of Oxford. He worked for Chase Manhattan Bank before switching to journalism and joining The Economist in 1987. By 2006, he was editing The Economist, famed for lively and collegial discussions at its weekly meetings – discussions that form the basis for some of its distinctive articles. If the World Economic Forum, held each year in Davos, Switzerland, decided to elect a mayor, the highly connected Mr. Micklethwait might be considered.

Micklethwait was born August 11, 1962, in London, England. At Oxford he read history at Magdalen College.

The story in The NY Times focused on the issues faced by Bloomberg News' Editor in Chief in covering the principal owner of his news medium, Michael Bloomberg, should Bloomberg decide to be a candidate for the presidency of the United States.

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