How did Bloomberg beat The Wall Street Journal and the rest of the press corps on one of the most-watched stories in the world: the release of Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan from Russia?

At 7:41 a.m. on August 1, Bloomberg published its scoop about the prisoner swap. Ten minutes later, a Bloomberg editor posted proudly on X, “It is one of the greatest honors of my career to have helped break this news. I love my job and my colleagues.” Then, 8:59, the piece was updated to read: “An earlier version of this story was corrected to reflect that the Americans have not been released yet.” The Journal itself didn’t report it until just after 11 when their reporter and other Americans — whose freedom was negotiated by the U.S. Government as part of an extremely complicated, 24-person swap across multiple countries — actually deplaned in Turkey.

According to multiple sources at the Journal and other major outlets, the Bloomberg........

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