{"id":3037,"date":"2017-08-25T15:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T19:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/company\/stories\/bloomberg-news-jacqueline-thorpe-swaps-roles-broaden-skills-global-network\/"},"modified":"2023-04-03T10:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T14:56:30","slug":"bloomberg-news-jacqueline-thorpe-swaps-roles-broaden-skills-global-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/company\/stories\/bloomberg-news-jacqueline-thorpe-swaps-roles-broaden-skills-global-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg News\u2019 Jacqueline Thorpe swaps roles to broaden her skills and global network"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since 2015, Bloomberg News reporters have been exchanging jobs with Bloomberg newsroom colleagues in San Francisco, Tokyo, Chicago, Hong Kong and other locations. This job-swap program enables experienced Bloomberg News employees to cover news in a different region while developing new proficiencies and relationships over a three-month period.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Thorpe, the Toronto bureau chief, shares her job swap experience working in Mumbai<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As the Bloomberg News Bureau Chief in Toronto, Jacqueline Thorpe leads a team of journalists covering financial services, technology and mining markets in Canada\u2019s largest city.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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During my job swap in Mumbai, I was able to learn new skills, broaden my network and deepen my understanding of Bloomberg\u2019s incredible reach.<\/p>\n

I was an editor on the South Asia economy and government team, led by Ruth Pollard, a former war correspondent who\u2019s worked in hot spots such as Syria and Egypt. I handled stories about India\u2019s tax reform, Hindu nationalism, zombie debt, some of the 23 million cases in the country\u2019s Dickensian court system and a rift between the government and central bank.<\/p>\n

India, the land of big dreams<\/strong>
\nOn one reporting trip, I drove under the Indian sun (temperatures reached 43\u00b0C\/109\u00b0F) with my colleague P R Sanjai, a consumer and auto-industries reporter based in Mumbai, to Nagpur \u2013 a city in the center of the country. Sanjai had arranged a whirlwind of interviews for a story we were writing on how the city is poised to become a shipping powerhouse once India introduces a goods and services tax, and inter-state trade barriers disappear.<\/p>\n

We met the head of a company building a high-tech warehouse for the city\u2019s ancient market, and another who\u2019s leading the construction of a transport hub backed by a big London-based infrastructure fund.<\/p>\n

Our last stop was a press conference at a warehouse where India\u2019s transport minister cut the ribbon on a lightning-fast conveyor belt. By then, the bindi that was dabbed on my forehead as I entered the building had almost melted away and even Sanjai was a little giddy from the heat as he joked, \u201cdon\u2019t be surprised if the minister tells us he\u2019s planning to connect India\u2019s road system to the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day summed up India \u2013 the land of big dreams, big dreamers and a pounding, relentless energy. It has a 6 percent growth rate that leaves western economies in the dust, a population of 1.3 billion, a swelling and ambitious middle class and a Prime Minister determined to shake things up.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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India has become a magnet for foreign investment and a growth market where Bloomberg now has about 50 journalists; many are based in the Mumbai office (pictured above).<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Collaboration across the global newsroom<\/strong>
\nComing from my position of bureau chief in Toronto, where I\u2019m a jack of all trades, to Mumbai for the opportunity to drill down into a beat once again was energizing. I was able to sharpen my skills in new forms of storytelling \u2013 whether it be through graphics, Q&As or short data-focused Benchmarks. But the best part of the swap was seeing how my new Bloomberg colleagues worked including Arijit Ghosh, the South Asia managing editor; the Mumbai Bureau Chief Candice Zachariahs; reporters Anirban Nag and Iain Marlow; as well as the breaking news team and editors in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

The fact that I found it relatively easy to slot into an Asia economy desk is a testament to the professionalism these journalists bring to their work \u2013 in a region where data can be scarce, officials hard to get to and conditions far more chaotic than in North America. It also underscores the rigorous systems Bloomberg has in place for reporting the news from every corner of the world.<\/p>\n

And now that I know them, I\u2019m sure they won\u2019t be too perturbed if they get a phone call at the end of their day asking for some help on a breaking news story in Toronto!<\/p>\n

Learn more about our News<\/a> and Media<\/a> teams, and read about Julia Leite<\/a>, Bloomberg News Bureau Chief in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 2015, Bloomberg News reporters have been exchanging jobs with Bloomberg newsroom colleagues in San Francisco, Tokyo, Chicago, Hong Kong and other locations. This job-swap program enables experienced Bloomberg News employees to cover news in a different region while developing new proficiencies and relationships over a three-month period. 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