Bloomberg Expands its New Voices Initiative to Washington DC and Singapore

Bloomberg announced the expansion of its New Voices media training initiative to Washington DC and Singapore during a reception at Bloomberg’s New York headquarters on January 14th.

Bloomberg L.P. Chairman Peter T. Grauer, who is the founding chairman of the U.S. 30% Club, said at the event: “I am proud to say that we can show real progress. Through the New Voices Program we’ve provided training to more than 150 female executives in business and finance in eight major cities around the world. The representation of women on Bloomberg Television has more than doubled. And as the news division launches a third year of this impactful program, we’re adding two additional cities for the training: Singapore and Washington DC, and pushing the goalposts even further.”

Bloomberg News launched the program in 2018 with the goal of increasing representation of women experts and opinions in the media industry. New Voices provides one-on-one media training for top women executives in finance and business with the goal of getting the women TV-ready for interviews on Bloomberg Television and other outlets.

Laura Zelenko, Bloomberg News Senior Executive Editor for Diversity, Talent, Standards and Training with women who have gone through the New Voices Training Program. From left, Monica Aggarwal, Fitch Ratings; Ashleigh Oakes Hart, TD Securities; Julie Harris, Bank of America; Sherry Paul, UBS Financial Services; Katerina Simonetti, UBS Financial Services; Laura Zelenko; Jasmine Richards, Cambridge Associates; and Anna Han, Wells Fargo Securities.

Also speaking at the event, Laura Zelenko, Bloomberg News Senior Executive Editor for Diversity, Talent, Standards and Training said: “Our focus here has been on increasing our representation both in the newsroom and in our content. It is absolutely a critical competitive necessity for us to enable balance and fairness in our coverage and to ensure that we are not missing the important stories that we need to write.”

Laura Zelenko, Bloomberg News Senior Executive Editor for Diversity, Talent, Standards and Training speaks during a reception at Bloomberg’s New York headquarters on January 14, 2020.

With the start of the New Voices training program in Washington DC and Singapore, the program will now have been launched in 10 cities, including Mumbai, Sydney, New York, San Francisco, London, and Dubai. Since the program’s inception, Bloomberg has trained over 150 women, with participants appearing more than 320 times on Bloomberg Television. Many of the women have been booked on and quoted in other media outlets as well.

Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu moderates a panel conversation with three women who have gone through the training program. From left, Sherry Paul, UBS Financial Services; Anna Han, Wells Fargo Securities; and Jasmine Richards, Cambridge Associates.

The event also featured a panel conversation, moderated by Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu, on the New Voices initiative with three women who have gone through the training program: Sherry Paul, UBS Financial Services; Anna Han, Wells Fargo Securities; and Jasmine Richards, Cambridge Associates.

To apply or nominate someone for the New Voices media training program, please click here. Find out more about how Bloomberg is advancing women at the company, in the workplace, in the news and in the world.