Bloomberg Businessweek outperforms other biz glossies in third quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Bloomberg Businessweek reported a 49.5 percent increase in advertising revenue and a 39 percent rise in ad pages during the third quarter, continuing its rebound after a lackluster performance in 2008 and 2009. The magazine, acquired by Bloomberg in late 2009, reported ad revenue of $49.7 million and ad pages of […]
Barron’s newspaper overhauls staff with promotions and hires
Fleming Meeks, the editor of the Barron’s Daily Stock Alert newsletter, has been named executive editor of the weekly financial newspaper. He will report to editor Edwin A. Finn, who announced a number of other promotions at the Dow Jones publication. Moving up to deputy managing editor is Phil Roosevelt, who has served as an assistant […]
Barron’s coverage of Gap has gaps
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs doesn’t think that a Barron’s story about retailer The Gap has enough facts to support its thesis.
Dow Jones revenue up 5 percent through three quarters
Les Hinton, the chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co., sent the following message to employees of the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires on Thursday afternoon: We enter this final fiscal quarter of 2011 with many accomplishments to our collective credit. We continue to bring to the market new products […]
Dow Jones CEO touts strong second quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Dow Jones & Co. CEO Les Hinton sent out the following e-mail to the company’s employees on Thursday: Dow Jones fiscal second-quarter results again showed profits and progress as we build a modern model for the news and information business. Within News Corp.’s second-quarter results yesterday were some encouraging numbers from […]
Barron's launches iPad app
Barron’s now has an iPad application that is free to download and costs $2.99 a week for the latest issue. Current print subscribers receive it for free. Tiernan Ray of Barron’s writes, “Like its Wall Street Journal sibling, the Barron’s iPad edition is a convincing digital simulacrum of the print version, and contains a splash/home […]
From Barron's to Forbes
Eric Savitz, who left Barron’s to cover technology for Forbes as its San Francisco bureau chief, writes about the change. Savitz writes, “For more than four years, I blogged like a wild man, writing the Tech Trader Daily blog for Barron’s. In the process, I posted close to 20,000 times, which is a little ridiculous, […]
Savitz leaving Barron's for Forbes
Forbes Media announced Monday that Eric J. Savitz will be coming to Forbes as the new San Francisco bureau chief, effective Dec. 6. Savitz will lead editorial operations for the San Francisco office while writing regularly for the Forbes web site and magazine. “As Forbes continues to embrace the social media landscape, we are very […]
Dow Jones CEO bullish on prospects
Les Hinton, the CEO of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires, sent the following e-mail to the company staff on the wake of its recent performance: First-quarter results confirm the wisdom of investing in our products and services to provide more value to readers […]
Outside the Barron's office
Here is a nice display of Barron’s covers outside of its offices in New York. The picture was taken during a tour of the Dow Jones & Co. news operations on Friday morning.
