The Bloomberg terminal: Whatever you want, you can get it
Wag magazine’s Georgette Gouveia profiles Bloomberg Television anchor Adam Johnson in the latest issue. Here is an excerpt: Johnson anchored Bloomberg TV’s special coverage of the S&P U.S. debt downgrade and special live coverage of the European credit crisis. Last year, he went to China for a five-part series on the second-largest economy. His big […]
Bloomberg.com launches new politics page
Bloomberg.com announced Monday the launch of a new Politics page featuring top stories, daily video commentary from Bloomberg’s Al Hunt, a state-by-state analysis of campaign spending and a “Political Capital” blog offering data-rich perspectives and insight. Run by Deputy Managing Editor for U.S. Government News, Mark Silva and reported by Bloomberg News’ Washington bureau, the […]
Bloomberg working on LIBOR alternative
Dan Doctoroff, the CEO of Bloomberg LP, writes in The Wall Street Journal that the company is working on an alternative to the LIBOR, or the London interbank offering rate. Doctoroff writes, “The company’s prescription — let’s call it ‘Blibor,’ the Bloomberg interbank offered rate — isn’t revolutionary. It simply applies the principles of data-based […]
Bloomberg website remains blocked in China
The Financial Times reports that Bloomberg News‘ website remains blocked in China, one month after it reported on the financial assets of the country’s vice president and leading candidate to become its next president. Simon Rabinovitch of the FT writes, “Although periodic outages of foreign media websites in China are common, the month-long total blackout […]
BusinessWeek was in danger of being closed before it was sold to Bloomberg
Stephen B. Shepard, the former editor in chief of BusinessWeek from 1984 to 2005, has a forthcoming autobiography called “Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path from Print to Digital.” Shepard, who is now dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, spends a good part of the book discussing his time at BusinessWeek as well […]
Bloomberg Pursuits looking to increase its frequency
Erik Maza of Women’s Wear Daily reports that Bloomberg Pursuits magazine is looking to increase its frequency. Maza writes, “The move is surprising. When the title was launched in January, it did not seem clear who would read Pursuits that Bloomberg hadn’t already reached with its other magazines, including Pursuits’ sister monthly title Bloomberg Markets […]
Bloomberg News editor clarifies position on quotes
Susan Goldberg, an executive editor at Bloomberg News, sent the following message to the staff she oversees about allowing sources to change quotes: You no doubt saw the recent New York Times story that said that we and several other news organizations, including the Times and the Post, allow sources to have “quote approval” or […]
More details emerge about Bloomberg’s convention mag
Lucia Moses of Adweek has more details about Bloomberg Insider, the magazine that Bloomberg News plans to produce for the Republican and Democratic conventions later this summer that Talking Biz News reported about nearly a month ago. Bloomberg wants to use the magazine to promote its Bloomberg Government service. Moses writes, “Pearlstine said Insider, which […]
Bloomberg Government hires research director
Bloomberg Government announced Monday that it has hired Robert Litan as director of research. He will begin work Aug. 6. Litan will work in partnership with Bloomberg Government managing editor Mike Riley, building on the more than 360 research papers produced by BGOV’s team of analysts since its launch in January 2011 Litan is currently the […]
Selling Bloomberg TV advertising
Trevor Fellows, head of global media sales at Bloomberg Television, kept a running schedule of a recent work week for MediaWeek. Here is an excerpt: The office day begins with a review of our “upfront” activity. American broadcasters and cable networks negotiate roughly 80% of the following year’s ad deals in a few weeks in […]
