Micklethwait’s Balancing Act, After a Year as Bloomberg Editor in Chief

In recent weeks, John Micklethwait, the editor in chief of Bloomberg, has sometimes felt, as he put it, like “a character in a Graham Greene novel. There’s an element of ‘there’s no perfect answer to it.’”

As part of a wide-ranging interview about his first year at Bloomberg, Mr. Micklethwait was discussing the latest in a line of complex balancing acts he has performed since he began running one of the world’s largest news organizations — in this case, how Bloomberg should cover its founder, Michael R. Bloomberg, as Mr. Bloomberg considers a presidential run.

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