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Bloomberg News Reportedly Tried to Silence Wife of Fired Reporter With NDA

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http://variety.com/2020/biz/news/bloomberg-news-china-investigation-nondisclosure-agreement-wife-mike-forsythe-1234579749/

Bloomberg News tried to silence the wife of one of its journalists with a nondisclosure, after his investigation was killed and he was fired from the news organization, according to a new NPR report, which aims to show the far-reaching legal measures taken by Bloomberg News to bury negative stories.

Six years ago, Bloomberg News killed an investigation into the wealth of Communist Party elites in China. After the company opted not to run the article, according to NPR, the reporters working on the investigation were silenced - and so was the spouse of journalist Mike Forsythe, Bloomberg's former Beijing correspondent, who is now employed by The New York Times.

"They assumed that because I was the wife of their employee, I was the wife. I was just an appendage of their employee. I was not a human being," Leta Hong Fincher told NPR, revealing that lawyers for Bloomberg News pressured her to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

Bloomberg News didn't immediately respond to Variety's request for comment. ...




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