Bloomberg is looking for freelance reporters in 16 African countries.

Bloomberg, the U.S. financial news agency, seeks reporters with familiarity in business, financial and economic reporting. Freelancers must have a minimum of five years’ experience, fluency in English and be based in one of the countries below.

Applications are only being accepted from the following countries: Mali, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, Comoros, Sao Tome et Principe, Cape Verde, Chad, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Puntland and Equatorial Guinea.

For more information, contact Emily Bowers at ebowers1@bloomberg.net and put the country of application the subject line.

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Bloomberg's new daily Bloomberg West show .

A new weekday show as started onBloomberg (HiTV Channel 3) this week.

Bloomberg West airs, Mondays to Fridays at 12:00am Nigerian time, is presented by Emily Chang and Cory Johnson from Bloomberg's brand-new San Francisco studio. The hour long Bloomberg West that focuses on technology and technology issues, interviews and profiles the personalities, companies and trends transforming the global economy.

''This is not a gadget show, this is not a show where we're going to show you gee-whiz cool startups," Cory Johnson said to the San Francisco Chronicle. ''This is a show on how technology is impacting business."


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An entertaining, ''elegant'' and intelligent new news magazine show Monocle on TV coming to Bloomberg Television.

What surely looks like a simply great new, entertaining and intelligent television addition is Monocle on TV that will start on Saturday, 18 December at 13:00 on Bloomberg Television (HiTV).

I just heard back from Bloomberg Television in Britain who confirmed to me that the new magazine show will indeed be available and broadcast in Nigeria as well, since HiTV subscribers are getting the Europe/UK Bloomberg Television feed. (The show will be broadcast on Bloomberg's American feed as well.)

Monocle on TV that will be produced in London. It will be a new hourlong, weekly TV news magazine on Bloomberg Television that Tyler Brule, founder of the high society culture magazine Monocle told New York Magazine, will hopefully ''be a return to more elegant television'' and ''gentle, good, informative viewing''. Tyler Brule as well as various Monocle editors will be the presenters.

A Bloomberg spokesperson tells me Monocle on TV will have a repeat slot on a Saturday evening, as well as on a Sunday.