Clark Hoyt joins Bloomberg News

Pulitzer Prize winner and former Knight-Ridder Washington bureau chief Clark Hoyt, 67, after three years as public editor/ombudsman of the New York Times, will beef up and improve Bloomberg News’ Washington

bureau, which already is three times larger than the New York Times’ bureau there. Hoyt will report directly to editor-in-chief Matthew A. Winkler.

Columbia University graduate Hoyt’s career includes the Lakeland, Florida Ledger, Wichita, Kansas Eagle-Beacon, Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald Washington correspondent, Knight Ridder national correspondent, Washington bureau news editor and KR vice president/news and McClatchy consultant after it bought KRI.

Hoyt and Robert S. Boyd shared a 1973 Pulitzer for their articles on Democratic vice presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton's depression that included electro-shock therapy.

Click on the headline for Clark's farewell column in New York Times.

Click on Hoyt’s biography when he went to the New York Times in 2007 and a 58-minute, fascinating C-SPAN interview after he left the NY Times.