Micklethwait to Bring New Editorial Tone to Bloomberg

By: Roger Yu and Kim Hjelmgaard | USA Today

Good timing has played a major role in John Micklethwait's career.

Two months before the Black Monday stock market crash in 1987, Micklethwait cashed in his job as a fledgling investment banker at Chase Manhattan to land an entry-level position at The Economist without any journalistic training — or even knowing how to type, the 52-year-old editor told blog Rverie in an interview.