Bloomberg Business to replace Businessweek.com

Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review writes Thursday that one of the changes being planned at Bloomberg’s media operations is to rename the Bloomberg Businessweek website to just Bloomberg Business. Starkman writes, “The strategy was not widely shared internally, though some elements have leaked. According to people with knowledge of the strategy, it has […]

Bloomberg seeks newsletter editors in New York

Bloomberg LP is seeking experienced editors for its newsletter division, Bloomberg Brief. The ideal candidate will have a background editing in a real-time environment including some editing of economics content; experience with newsletters or specialty publications is also a plus. The job will include editing economists’ analyses of data on very short deadlines. The editor […]

Topolsky of The Verge is joining Bloomberg

Josh Topolsky, the co-founder of the technology website The Verge, will join Bloomberg as the editor of a series of new online ventures it is launching as part of a revamped journalism strategy, reports Ravi Somaiya of the New York Times. Somaiya writes, “Mr. Topolsky will start Aug. 4, and will report to Josh Tyrangiel, […]

Bloomberg seeks oil reporter in London

Bloomberg News seeks an experienced reporter in its London office to break news and write enterprise pieces on dynamic oil markets with a particular focus on covering the European refinery industry. The successful applicant will co-ordinate with colleagues across Europe as well as Africa and the Middle East, to break news on refinery outages and […]

Bloomberg seeks editor for natural gas and power newsletter

Bloomberg LP is seeking an experienced editor with knowledge of the Energy industry to join Bloomberg Brief, our growing newsletter division. This person will bring their vision to bear to launch an innovative Natural Gas and Power newsletter backed by all the news and data resources of Bloomberg. The editor will select, edit, and lay […]

Bloomberg launches R&D office in San Francisco

Kara Swisher of Re/Code writes about Michael Bloomberg’s visit to San Francisco to open a research and development office for his company. Swisher writes, “Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a little late to his own geek party this morning at WeWork in the South of Market area of San Francisco. “But when he […]

Bloomberg seeks M&A reporter in Hong Kong

Bloomberg News seeks an experienced reporter to cover mergers and acquisitions out of Hong Kong. The individual will join a strong team that is focused on breaking the biggest M&A deals in a competitive, high-profile beat. Stories will range from private-equity buyouts to corporate mergers and emerging trends in M&A. Knowledge of financial markets is […]

Bloomberg BNA seeks reporter in Los Angeles

Bloomberg BNA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bloomberg and publisher of legal and regulatory information, seeks a Correspondent – C2 based in Los Angeles covering full range of news for all BBNA titles with emphasis on legal, regulatory, and legislative news from southern California. RESPONSIBILITIES: Report, interview, and write news articles for a variety of […]

Bloomberg seeks economy/government editor in Brussels

Bloomberg is seeking an experienced editor in Brussels to coordinate coverage of European Union institutions, regional economic policy and set-piece intergovernmental meetings. The successful candidate will be at the nexus of a pan-regional reporting effort, creating and corralling ad-hoc teams of journalists and focusing their talents to deliver scoops on policy formulation and outcomes in […]

Trying to make business videos go viral

Michelle Castillo of Adweek interviewed Paul Marcum, Bloomberg’s global head of video, about the company’s expansion plans in that medium. Here is an excerpt: How do the digital videos differ from what you do for broadcast? We were No. 1 in business video at the end of last year, according to comScore. That wasn’t based […]