Ted Merz

Background

About Ted Merz

I spent 32 years at Bloomberg LP and left in early 2022. Since then I’ve founded Principals Media, a ghostwriting agency for executives. I am also advising startups, consulting media and financial firms on content strategy and angel investing. I'm open to mentoring anyone interested in journalism, content strategy or fintech product. Please reach out to me via direct messages on LinkedIn. I use LinkedIn to write about fintech product innovation, my career at Bloomberg, my views on leadership, and life lessons from my parents. I spent three decades working for Bloomberg, half of which was spent in editorial and half in product development. The common thread is deep thinking about how to create and find information. Bloomberg was still a startup when I was hired in 1990. I was the fifteenth person in the editorial group and worked the graveyard shift, starting at 4 a.m. Mike Bloomberg sat at a desk across the room. My first big assignment was to expand operations in Latin America. I opened 7 offices in the region and ran the group for many years. In the mid-1990s, I was named one of Bloomberg’s first five Managing Editors. I became New York Bureau Chief before the 9/11 attacks and directed that coverage. I was promoted to Managing Editor for the Americas in 2001. I was recruited to join the nascent product development group in 2006. I managed web scraping operations and pioneered content deals with media companies including the New York Times and Washington Post. In 2012, I integrated Twitter onto the Bloomberg terminal. Later, my team focused on automated news and data analytics. That included working with machine learning and AI engineers to build models for news sentiment, news volumes and other algorithms to surface the highest-quality content. I enjoy connecting with people who want to talk or work on projects involving content, search and technology.