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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.

Mike Bloomberg
Throughout his career, Bloomberg’s restless ambition has turned time and again to an expansion of his media assets. Photo: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
December 29, 2022

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.