Bloomberg News has hired former Wall Street Journal reporter Ted Mann in Washington.

Ted Mann was a reporter in the Journal’s Washington bureau. He previously covered General Electric and other industrial conglomerates for the corporate bureau in New York.

Mann was the transportation reporter for the Greater New York section of The Wall Street Journal and is credited with breaking the story on Bridgegate.

Before joining the Journal, he covered politics and government in Connecticut. He is a graduate of New York University.