The Bloomberg Audience of One

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Good evening, I’m Dylan Byers.

Welcome back to In The Room, my bi-weekly private email that takes you behind the scenes of the American media. Tonight, an inside look at what’s real and what’s not in Mike Bloomberg’s alleged interest in a Journal or Post acquisition—and what it says about where the Bloomberg empire may be headed.

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The Bloomberg Audience of One

Does the ever-restless former Hizzoner and fintech billionaire and presidential aspirant really want to buy the WaPo and WSJ, or is a recent Axios report the work of an eager courtier? As has been the case with third mayoral terms and presidential campaigns, only one guy knows.

DYLAN BYERS

Michael Bloomberg, the visionary entrepreneur, philanthropist and three-term New York City mayor, has a well-meaning, if mildly foolish, grandad-style oh-my-better-half-is-so-much-better joke that he used to utter in the company of close friends, sources who have heard the remark say. Referring to his elegant longtime domestic partner, Diana Taylor, the often gruff and blunt billionaire would lovingly quip about how he only wished that she could find someone else so that, at his advanced age, he could hit the market again.

It was a silly and harmless joke, meant to get a knowing wink kind of a laugh. Indeed, as anyone in Manhattan society...

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