Bloomberg View Names Timothy L. O’Brien Publisher

NEW YORK — Bloomberg View today announced that Timothy L.
O’Brien has been named to the new position of Publisher. O’Brien
is former Executive Editor of The Huffington Post and will
oversee the promotion of View content worldwide, extending the
View brand in global media markets and assisting its continued
growth as an influential forum on the Web.

“Tim is an outstanding addition to our team: he’s an innovator
with extraordinary skills as a journalist and as a promoter of
journalism,” said David Shipley, Executive Editor of Bloomberg
View. “We’ve spent the last two years establishing View as a
vital hub for thoughtful opinion and analysis. Tim will help us
engage even more readers around the globe.”

As publisher, O’Brien will forge strategic partnerships to
introduce View to more readers in the U.S. and around the world,
building on View’s brand of thoughtful, solution-oriented
opinion. He will further leverage the resources of Bloomberg LP
to enhance View’s brand.

At The Huffington Post, O’Brien helped oversee a newsroom of
more than 400 editors and reporters. He edited and oversaw a
ten-part series about wounded veterans returning from Iraq and
Afghanistan for which The Huffington Post won a 2012 Pulitzer
Prize.

O’Brien oversaw the Sunday Business section of The New York
Times from 2006 to 2010. He also helped oversee the team which
produced “The Reckoning,” a series that examined the roots of
the 2008 financial crisis and which was a Pulitzer Prize
finalist and Loeb Award winner. O’Brien was previously a staff
writer for the paper. While at the Times, he won a Loeb Award
for Distinguished Business Journalism in 1999. He previously
worked for The Wall Street Journal, Talk magazine and National
Geographic.

O’Brien is currently writing a series of historical thrillers
for Random House that is set in the post-Civil War era. The
first of these novels, “The Lincoln Conspiracy,” a tale of
murder and intrigue in post-Civil War Washington, was published
in 2012. He is also the author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being
the Donald,” and “Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour,
Glitz, and Danger of America’s Gambling Industry.”

O’Brien has a B.A. cum laude in literature from Georgetown
University, an M.A. in U.S. History from Columbia University, an
M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, and an MBA from
Columbia University. He has lived and worked in Europe, South
America and Asia.

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Contact for Bloomberg:

Ty Trippet, +1 212-617-2443, ttrippet@bloomberg.net

Contact for View:

Mario Ruiz, +1 917-864-5370, Mario@marioruizpublicrelations.com