Matthew Winkler
News organizations and titles: Editor in chief, Bloomberg News, 1990-present; reporter covering credit markets, corporate finance and securities industries, The Wall Street Journal, 1987-90; London correspondent, The Wall Street Journal, 1982-87; helped develop Dow Jones Capital Markets Report, 1980-82; assistant editor, Bond Buyer, 1978-80; public relations specialist, Gehrung Associates, 1977-78; reporter, Mount Vernon (Ohio) News, 1976-77.
Legacy: Mr. Winkler is the editorial power behind Michael Bloomberg's media empire. In less than a decade, he recruited, trained and placed more than 600 business journalists in bureaus throughout the world. In the process, he took on media giants Dow Jones and Reuters and made the Bloomberg name synonymous with business news in corporate boardrooms throughout the world.
Mr. Winkler was one of the first reporters at The Wall Street Journal/Europe, spent five years in London, and helped form Dow Jones Capital Market Reports.Personal: Born June 1, 1955. He was elected to the board of the Overseas Press Club in 1998.
Family: Wife, Lisa; they have three children.
Books: Co-author, "Bloomberg by Bloomberg," 1997.
Education: Kenyon College, A.B., history, 1977.
What he has said about himself: "I love the newsroom, the scoops. I've always been a newspaper guy. I think it's a very romantic occupation. I love being around reporters."
About joining Bloomberg News: People like Mr. Bloomberg "have been buying money, selling money, trading money, and investing money for a living for years. I thought it was a great opportunity to marry their intelligence and knowledge about money, which has been lacking in journalism, and combine it with the intelligence and knowledge and writing talent of journalists, and put it on a real-time basis."What others have said about him: Randall Rothenberg, an Esquire contributing editor who helped reorganize Bloomberg's European news division: "Matt Winkler loves scoops. He loves investigative projects, great leads, good writing. Of course, their bread and butter is market reports."