Bloomberg News Stands Out With Editorial Policy to Not Report on Itself

By: Ravi Somaiya | New York Times

On the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires, Michael R. Bloomberg appears at No. 15, with a net worth of $33.6 billion. But on his own company’s ranking, the Bloomberg Billionaires index, he appears nowhere.

The omission is not the result of a programming error, but of a Bloomberg company policy outlined in the ninth paragraph of the index’s methodology.