Matthew Winkler

Visiting Professor

Matthew Winkler is editor-in-chief emeritus of Bloomberg News, the global news organization of 2,900 he founded with Michael Bloomberg in 1990 when he became its first employee and leader for 25 years. Winkler created the Bloomberg Journalism Diversity Program in 2015, an international partnership with universities conceived to inspire careers in all aspects of economic reporting among students of color. Winkler also is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and convenes news makers in business, financial markets and governments worldwide for Bloomberg L.P.

During Winkler’s quarter-century as editor-in-chief, Bloomberg became the only news organization to receive every top award in every form of print, broadcast and digital media, including: the Pulitzer Prize, the “Emmy” of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the National Magazine Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors.

Winkler received the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, the 2007 Gerald Loeb Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing “exceptional career achievements in business, financial and economic news writing,” the 2007 “Emmy” Lifetime Achievement Award for business and financial reporting, the National Council for Research on Women award in 2010 for promoting women and the YWCA-NYC Man of the Year award in 2013 for promoting diversity and female focused initiatives.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s ban on selective disclosure of corporate information, known as Reg FD, was prompted by Bloomberg News’ reporting of market manipulation in the 1990s and the Federal Reserve’s disclosure of unprecedented loans during the 2007-2008 financial crisis resulted after courts affirmed Bloomberg’s Freedom of Information Act suit against the central bank, for which it received a special citation from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government at the 2012 Goldsmith Awards.

Winkler is co-author of Bloomberg by Bloomberg and author of The Bloomberg Way: A Guide for Reporters and Editors. His lectures at more than two dozen universities include: the commencement address at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism (2010) where he was a visiting professor (2016), featured speaker at Columbia University’s annual conference at the Center for Capitalism and Society (2016), Inaugural Lecture at the journalism school of Sciences Po in Paris (2013) and the Woodrow Wilson School’s thematic lecture series at Princeton (2012).

Between 1991 and 1994, he wrote the Capital Markets column for Forbes magazine. Between July 1980 and February 1990, Winkler was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and news services of parent Dow Jones & Co. in New York and in London. Winkler was a New York-based reporter and assistant editor at The Bond Buyer (1978-1980); and a reporter for the Ohio-based Mount Vernon News (1976-1977).

Born in New York City in 1955, Winkler is a graduate of Kenyon College (A.B. in history, honorary doctorate of Laws); trustee of Kenyon and The Kenyon Review; and member of the board of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).

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