Winkler began his journalism career at the
Kenyon Collegian and later, at a local paper, the
Mount Vernon News while he was a student at
Kenyon College. Following his years at the Mount Vernon News, Winkler worked as a New York-based reporter and assistant editor at
The Bond Buyer. Between 1980 and 1990, Winkler was a reporter in London and New York for
The Wall Street Journal, a reporter for ''
Barron's, and the founding editor/reporter for the Dow Jones Capital Markets Report
. Between 1991 and 1994, he wrote the Capital Markets column for Forbes'' magazine.
Bloomberg News After working at
The Wall Street Journal for 10 years, Winkler left in 1990 when he co-founded Bloomberg News with
Michael Bloomberg and became its editor-in-chief. Founded to provide financial bulletins to augment Bloomberg terminal service, Bloomberg News has since grown to include a wire service, a global television network, radio station, website, subscription-only newsletters and two magazines,
Bloomberg Businessweek and
Bloomberg Markets. In 2011, Bloomberg News included more than 2,300 editors and reporters in 72 countries and 146 news bureaus worldwide. Under Winkler, the organization won the 2015 Pulitzer for Explanatory Reporting with
Zachary Mider’s "painstaking, clear and entertaining explanation of how so many U.S. corporations dodge taxes and why lawmakers and regulators have a hard time stopping them."
The Bloomberg Way Winkler is known for his enforcement of the "Bloomberg Way," which includes a 300 plus-page guide outlining Bloomberg News reporting standards and its ethics and values. Reporters following the "Bloomberg Way" are instructed to consider the "Five Fs": factual word, first word, fastest word, final word and future word. ==Awards and honors==