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New York Times CEO Mark Thompson hits out at Bloomberg for putting 'commercial interests ahead of journalism' in China row

on Mar 26, 2014 | 0 comments

By Angela Haggerty

New York Times CEO and president Mark Thompson has hit out at Bloomberg for putting “commercial interests ahead of journalism” after Bloomberg chairman Peter T Grauer appeared to backtrack on stories related to Chinese officials after the country issued a ban.

Discussing Bloomberg’s comments during a speech at the Financial Times Digital Media Conference in London, the former director-general of the BBC said that the right to a free press was under attack both at a domestic and international level and insisted the New York Times would not bow to commercial pressures and would strive to keep to its core principles Read full story ›

Source: The Drum