Bloomberg Businessweek, one year later
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE One year ago this week, Bloomberg L.P. closed on its acquisition of BusinessWeek magazine from McGraw-Hill. It hired Time deputy managing editor Josh Tyrangiel to be the magazine’s new editor and renamed the publication Bloomberg Businessweek. The publication moved from McGraw-Hill’s building near Rockefeller Center to Bloomberg’s offices near Central Park. […]
BGOV defeats Bloomberg Businessweek in flag football
Betsy Rothstein of Fishbowl DC reports Tuesday that staffers from BGOV, the new Bloomberg service that reports on the intersection of business and government, defeated a team of staffers from Bloomberg Businessweek magazine in flag football by a score of 28 to 21. Rothstein writes, “A tipster tells us Kevin Sheekey, head of gov relations, […]
Layoffs at Bloomberg Businessweek’s online operations
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Bloomberg Businessweek, which has had a number of layoffs during the past two years, is cutting an undisclosed number of staff members on Tuesday. The cuts are apparently in the online staff of the magazine, according to sources close to the situation. The magazine was acquired by Bloomberg LP in December […]
Bloomberg Businessweek names new ME
Bloomberg Businessweek announced Monday that Kristin Powers has been named managing editor of the magazine. Powers will report to editor Josh Tyrangiel and join deputy editor Eric Pooley and executive editor Ellen Pollock on the magazine’s senior management team. “Kristin is incredibly talented and has tremendous production experience,” said Tyrangiel in a statement. “We are […]
Seven classic bad calls in business journalism
Charles Wallace of DailyFinance.com has compiled a list of the seven worst “calls” made in business journalism, further proof that business reporters should never get in the prognostication business. Here is part of his list: 2.Time magazine anointed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos “Man of the Year” on Dec. 27, 1999. Just a week earlier, Amazon […]
Ex-Businessweek writer joins All Things Digital
Arik Hesseldahl, who covered Apple and other technology stories for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, has been hired to be a tech reporter for All Things Digital, the Wall Street Journal’s tech site. Kara Swisher of All Things Digital writes, “Thus, we turned to Arik, who has a long history covering a wide range of beats in […]
Biz magazines outperform industry in third quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 14 business magazines that report advertising data to the Publishers Information Bureau outperformed the rest of the magazine industry, according to data released Monday that was analyzed by Talking Biz News. The magazines reported a 7.9 percent increase in advertising revenue and a 5.4 percent rise in advertising pages. That […]
Economist, Businessweek, Harvard Business Review win Olin prizes
The Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis announced the winners of the first Olin Corporate Strategy Prize honoring the best business journalism covering a company experiencing significant strategic change. The business school hopes the annual prize will help to expand awareness and understanding among business school students and the general business public […]
Looking to make Bloomberg's news operations profitable
Keith Kelly of the New York Post writes Monday about what’s going on at Bloomberg L.P., including a plan to make its news operations a money maker. Kelly writes, “Going forward the company wants to do something it’s never done: turn its media businesses, which include Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets magazine, plus Bloomberg TV, radio […]
Businessweek executive editor expected to become NYT mag editor
Hugo Lindgren, the executive editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, is expected to be named the next editor of the New York Times Magazine, reports John Koblin of the New York Observer. Koblin writes, “Mr. Lindgren spent the last seven months as the executive editor at Bloomberg Businessweek. Prior to Businessweek, Mr. Lindgren was the editorial director […]
