Award-Winning Correspondent Bel Bruno To Lead BridgeNews European Banking Coverage.Business Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2000 BridgeNews has appointed award-winning financial correspondent Joe Bel Bruno as its Senior European Banking Correspondent based in London. Bel Bruno, who was recently recognized for excellence in news agency reporting by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is an association of business journalists. Its headquarters is at the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri–Columbia. See also: Business journalism Source: Official site , will bring increased specialization to BridgeNews European banking coverage at a time of major change in that industry. Tim Penn, Managing Editor, Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). , for BridgeNews, said "we're pleased to welcome Joe here as our Senior European Banking Reporter, and are looking forward to him having the same impact on our coverage that he had in the development of the BridgeNews LiveWire, our rapidly growing US company news service." Bel Bruno won the Society of American Business Editors (SABEW SABEW Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Inc. ) "Best in Business Award" for his late-night coverage of the Bank of America's earnings, in which the Bank used some one-time gains to boost profits in certain areas of its quarterly earnings. While these one-time boosts were legal, the Bank didn't disclose this to analysts. BridgeNews hired Bel Bruno in April 1998 as a financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. reporter in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . He has now been promoted to Senior European Banking Reporter based in London, with a charter to expand the depth and breadth of BridgeNews financial services coverage from Europe. Bel Bruno has worked at The Orange County Register, Copley News Service, Thomson Financial's Bond Buyer newspaper, and the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Business Journal. BridgeNews, the news-gathering arm of Bridge Information Systems, generates over 7,000 news items each day with its editorial staff of 600 in more than 100 locations around the world. BridgeNews delivers real-time, 24-hour coverage of the world's markets including breaking news, analysis, statistics, forecasts, calendars and summaries. BRIDGE, together with its principle operating units, Bridge Information Systems, Telerate, BridgeNews, and Bridge Trading, is the largest provider of financial information and related services in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. -- and one of the fastest growing in the world. BRIDGE information products include a wide range of workstations, market data feeds and web-browser-based applications, combined with comprehensive market data, in-depth news, powerful analytic tools and trading room integration systems. BridgeNews leverages a network of 600+ BRIDGE journalists in more than 100 locations that break news that affect securities markets globally. BRIDGE is the co-producer of the Nightly Business Report Nightly Business Report is a financial news television program that is broadcast live, weekday evenings on most of the public television stations in the United States. Frequently abbreviated to NBR, the show is produced by public television station WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida, and and is a leading provider of financial news and information to media companies worldwide. BRIDGE, with 5000+ employees worldwide, and over a quarter of a million users in over 65 countries, is headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with the BRIDGE Trading and Technology center in St. Louis, and major regional centers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific Rim. For more information visit the BRIDGE web site at http://www.bridge.com. |
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