How to tell a headline and lead has been written by Bloomberg’s Winkler

Jim Romenesko has a post from an anonymous Bloomberg News staffer about how to tell when editor in chief Matthew Winkler has written a story’s headline and lead. Some of the clues: * First telltale: The theme. The biggest bugaboo right now at Bloomberg is how wrong the credit companies are and have been. Probably […]

Bloomberg TV corrects Betty Liu ad that claims Pulitzer nomination

Bill Dedman of MSNBC.com writes that Bloomberg Television has pulled an advertisement for anchor Betty Liu because it says she was a nominated for a Pulitzer when the Pulitzer committee does not list her as a nominee for any year. Dedman writes, “When asked by msnbc.com about the discrepancy, Bloomberg TV said the ads are […]

Bloomberg set to start industry research unit

Bloomberg L.P. plans to announce that it has hired more than 100 research professionals for a global industry research service, reports Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson of the Financial Times. Edgecliffe-Johnson writes, “The Bloomberg Industries service will combine interactive, real-time data on more than 100 industry sectors in North America, Europe and Asia with analysis from a team […]

Bloomberg Markets launches iPad app

Bloomberg Markets magazine is joining the growing family of Bloomberg mobile offerings with its own iPad application called Bloomberg Markets+. In addition to the contents of the print version, the app includes exclusive video with Bloomberg Markets’ editor, Ron Henkoff, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the feature story and other key stories in that month’s […]

Bloomberg TV unveils new lineup

Bloomberg Television unveiled more market-focused coverage to its lineup on Monday. Beginning at 6 a.m., “Bloomberg Surveillance” with Tom Keene will air simultaneously across Bloomberg’s multiple media platforms, including Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg.com and on Bloomberg Mobile The program will air from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. on Bloomberg Television and across all other […]

Bloomberg TV’s Dominic Chu on being “on” all the time

Janelle Harris of MediaBistro interviewed Bloomberg Television reporter Dominic Chu on covering the markets. Here is an excerpt: Besides your obvious knowledge of the material, what did you bring with you from your finance career that made you transition fairly easily into television? You know what I think it is? There are a lot of […]

Biz media say progress made in talks with Labor Department

Business media outlets say they have made progress in talks with the Labor Department in a dispute over how the federal government agency releases economic data to journalists. An Associated Press story states, “Testifying to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Reuters and Bloomberg News officials revealed little detail about the movement they said […]

Problems with Twitter coverage

Chris O´Brien of the San Jose Mercury News has some issues with how Twitter´s revenue projections were covered by the business media. O´Brien writes, ¨Late last week, Bloomberg reported that Twitter expects to hit $1 billion in revenueby 2014, at least two years earlier than analysts had projected. The projection was attributed to two unnamed […]

Bloomberg aiming to be the most influential

Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine writes Sunday about how Bloomberg LP is increasingly becoming an increasingly influential media organization. Sherman writes, “Bloomberg LP began by selling pure information, and its journalism is still heavily influenced by a commodity model. The company’s self-professed mission statement is to become ‘the most influential’ news service in the world. […]

Why Bloomberg shouldn’t buy the NYT

Jonathan Berr of InvestorPlace.com writes about why Bloomberg LP should have no interest whatsoever in acquiring the New York Times and merging its news operations with its own. Berr writes, “At a time when scads of news organizations — including the Times— are retrenching, Bloomberg has added coverage, including Bloomberg View, its op-ed page. The […]