Nicole Lapin has returned to television, taking on a role at Bloomberg TV. According to Business Insider, Lapin is acting as a substitute anchor for Emily Chang, who is going on maternity leave. Lapin will appear on Bloomberg West.

“Bloomberg TV is really on the pulse of the growing tech scene, from New York City to San Francisco,” Lapin told BI in a statement. “We’re following the new money trail, and I’m excited to be working on the most innovative business team in the industry.

Lapin is a former CNN and CNBC anchor.

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Mayor Bloomberg’s financial news empire, a.k.a. Bloomberg LP, which runs Bloomberg Radio (WBBR/1130) and Bloomberg TV, started in New York 31 years ago.

Bloomberg still holds a majority ownership in the media company that controls one-third of the $16 million global financial data market.

But all is not beautiful at Bloomberg, which has its “world headquarters” next to Bloomingdales on the Upper East Side.

The Website, Glassdoor, which provides background information on jobs and companies, also allows reviews. Those usually anonymous comments give additional insight into the “Glass Tower” on Lexington Avenue.

At last check, more than 500 current and former “Bloombergers” gave reviews to the site.

The prevailing positive is that the privately held company pays competitive salaries. But that doesn’t mean all employees are loving life at Bloomberg. Don’t take my word it. Here’s a sampling of some disgruntled employees.

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A veteran of Wall Street, Dominic Chu landed his gig as a markets reporter for Bloomberg Television with just his knowledge of finance and a stellar audition. And though he is relatively new to the media industry, he has covered his share of hard hitting news during his two years on the air, including the Flash Crash of 2010.

“It was definitely a very fast and furious situation,” Chu said in his Mediabistro interview. “Things were literally happening not in hours or minutes, but seconds sometimes. It was a bit of an adrenaline rush, because it was historic just by the sheer volatility. Probably one of the hardest parts was trying to stay calm and be able to deliver some kind of message that was understandable to the audience.”

Read the full interview in So What Do You Do, Dominic Chu?

– Andrea Hackett

The Associated Press was the big winner today of the 2012 New York Press Club Awards for Journalism. The AP walked away with six awards including top prize, the Gold Keyboard Investigative Journalism Award for the series, “NYPD Spies on NYC.”

Finalists for the Gold Keyboard were Ian Urbina at The New York Times and Daniel Golden and Oliver Staley at Bloomberg News.

NY1 won the coveted Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York trophy for One on 1 with Budd Mishkin: A Look Back at 2011.

Finalist for the Nellie Bly Cub Reporter was WCBS 880 reporter/anchor Alex Silverman.

The winner for Best Headline and Front Page in the magazine category went to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, while Newsday took home for newspaper.

For Best Business Reporting, Bloomberg TV with anchors Carole Massar, Matt Miller, and Carole Zimmer was victorious. Bloomberg also won in the magazine division.

Best Business Reporting among newspapers goes to The Wall Street Journal.

In the Consumer Reporting category, chalk another for the mayor’s media empire, as Bloomberg News wins in the NewsWire division.

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Bloomberg Television has hired Trish Regan as an anchor for its “Street Smart” program, which airs from 3 pm to 5 pm during the week. Regan comes to Bloomberg TV from ABC, where she worked as an economic expert; prior to that she was an anchor at CNBC.

In addition to her work on Street Smart, Regan will be appearing in primetime specials and help Bloomberg TV with its 2012 presidential election coverage.

“I’m thrilled to join Bloomberg Television,” said Regan. “We’re at a critical moment where the ability to cover business, the economy, and politics has never been more important to the audience.  Bloomberg has the worldwide resources to provide viewers with outstanding insight and true global coverage.”

Regan starts on January 9.

Can’t get enough of your Bloomberg TV? Well, to paraphrase the famous catch phrase that helped lift MTV into the stratosphere, “I want my BTV–app!”

Bloomberg TV, with its world headquarters on Lexington Avenue, has launched a new iPad app. Lost remote.com reports Bloomberg is streaming its entire broadcast day, which includes overseas programming in London and Hong Kong, to anyone with an iPad.

The Web site reports with Oke Okaro, Global Head of Mobile at Bloomberg helming the project, the app also offers customizable on-demand content based on location and topic, and in the near future iPad exclusive content.

Although video is the iPad’s stock in trade, Okaro tells Lost Remote.com that users can get live market data and can customize Bloomberg’s familiar scrolling ticker.

Credit Suisse is the main advertising partner, along with other sponsors:  Johnnie Walker Blue, OppenheimerFunds, NYSE Euronext, and Verizon.

Winners were announced for the 2011 New York Press Club Journalism Awards yesterday. Bloomberg LP and NY1 each won four awards, while WCBS 880 was honored with three trophies.  

Winners were selected from 20 categories. The award presentation will take place Monday, June 13 at the Water Club.

The complete list of winners after the jump

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On February 4, 2009, more than 100 employees of Bloomberg Radio and TV were laid off. While that’s part of the business, especially as the economy went from bad to worse, at the Mayor’s financial media empire, Bloomberg LP, it was unimaginable. Just do the math—28 years in business, no layoffs until that fateful day.

Last August, FishbowlNY spoke exclusively with veteran anchor Mike Schneider, who along with his staff, saw firsthand the ball rolling the night before.

Dozens were let go, but there were a select few that would find their voice again, working in New York radio and on the national scene. Longtime news anchor Mitch Lebe, at Bloomberg Radio (WBBR) through much of the last decade, is back on the air. He’s doing part-time anchoring on WABC-AM for Metro Networks and Westwood One.     

But this focus is on the names you don’t see on TV or hear on your radio. This is a cross-section of some behind the scenes staffers who had to deal with the Bloomberg debacle, and how they’ve recovered, or attempted to, in the ensuing two years. 

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Bloomberg TV started Surveillance Midday today. It will run weekday from noon to 1 p.m. with venerable Bloomberg show host Tom Keene.

The branding of surveillance is used on radio as well. Keene and Ken Prewitt co-host Bloomberg Surveillance daily from 7 to 10 a.m. on WBBR 1130 in New York.

Keene, the Bloomberg News editor-at-large, had also hosted Bloomberg On the Economy on WBBR. That is now co-anchored by Sara Eisen and Mike McKee mornings from 11 to noon.  

TVNewser has more on the Bloomberg schedule changes