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In tonight’s edition, we reveal just why Bloomberg News EIC John Micklethwait was shocked his publications CityLab had won a Pulitzer and who Mike Bloomberg favors to replace him.

Also, the latest on New York Times finance journalist Rob Copeland, who has been missing from the newsroom in recent weeks following a bizarre incident in which he complained to HR that Business Editor Ellen Pollock had threatened his life. 

Plus Daily News employees mount a campaign against owner Alden Capital.

Mentioned tonight: Laurene Powell Jobs, Gabriel Brotman, Jonathan Greenberger, Austin Reif, Karl Wells, Sharen Phillips, Jesse Angelo, Pam Wasserstein, Mary Liz McCurdy, Dennis Berman, Brian Morrissey, Zack Christenson, Orson Fry, Aidan McLaughlin, Harrison Vail, Michael Corkery, Andrew Julien, Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson, Reto Gregori, Stephanie Flanders and Kristin Scott Thomas.

(Exclusive.) It’s journalism's most prestigious prize. The Pulitzers are handed out once a year, and competition is fierce; after all, the awards can make or break a newsroom and careers. 

So on May 4th (the day before the Pulitzers were officially announced), when Bloomberg’s Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait learned the organization had won its first Pulitzer in a decade, he was shocked. 

Bloomberg CityLab contributing writer Alexandra Lange had won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for a series of essays that the Pulitzer committee noted were “genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations, and analysis to consider the architectural components that allow children and communities to thrive.”

But Micklethwait's surprise was down to the fact that…