Bloomberg enters billionaire rankings business
Bloomberg News introduced its new ranking of the world’s richest people on Sunday with the release of its Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s 20 wealthiest individuals. The release comes just about a week before rival Forbes magazine is slated to release its annual list of the world’s billionaires, estimated at approximately […]
BGOV leader departs for Weather Channel
Chris Walters, who led the founding of Bloomberg Government, a news and information service launched at the beginning of 2011 by Bloomberg LP, is leaving to become chief operating officer of The Weather Channel. Jeff Roberts of PaidContent.org writes, “Bloomberg launched the product to tap a perceived ‘gold rush’ in helping business decipher the ways […]
The strategy behind covering sustainability
Curtis Brainerd of Columbia Journalism Review interviewed Eric Roston, who oversees sustainability coverage for Bloomberg News, about why the business news organization is covering environmental issues. Here is an excerpt: Do you have a working definition of what sustainability means at Bloomberg News? In two words, it would be “deep strategy.” Companies are looking very […]
Opening up by the third glass of wine
Alessandra Stanley of the New York Times reviewed the new Bloomberg Television show “Titans at the Table” and noted that by the third glass of wine, the Wall Streeters were much more loquacious. Stanley writes, “Bloomberg TV looks a lot like its two rivals, CNBC and Fox Business News — overcaffeinated anchors, pulsating stock tickers […]
Checking out “Bloomberg Rewind”
Joshua Brown of The Reformed Broker writes about Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg Rewind,” which is anchored by Matt Miller. Brown writes, “They’re repackaging the most important interview clips and soundbites of the day (from Buffett, Stockman, Faber, Biggs, Cooperman, Gross, El-Erian) while host Matt Miller is highlighting and discussing the stuff you may have missed with […]
Bloomberg launches new terminal
Bloomberg LP announced Monday that it has released a new terminal for its 310,000 clients. The terminal is how many of its customers access the business news and commentary stories produced by its editorial staff. Bloomberg NEXT is the result of a multi-year design process conducted by Bloomberg’s research and development team of more than […]
Bloomberg pulls ahead of Reuters in market share
Bloomberg LP has finally pulled ahead, with 30.44 percent market share in 2011 versus longtime rival Thomson Reuters‘ 30.05 percent, according to a report released Wednesday by Burton-Taylor International Consulting, reports Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York. Flamm writes, “Bloomberg’s move into first place has coincided with troubles at Thomson Reuters, which replaced its CEO […]
The first great financial journalist
T.J. Stiles writes for Bloomberg View about Charles Francis Adams Jr., whom he considers to be the first great financial journalist in American history. Stiles writes, “He published his finest piece in the North American Review in July 1869. Titled ‘A Chapter of Erie,’ it described the epic battle over the stock of the giant […]
Business news at the dinner table
Dylan Stableford at Yahoo News writes about the new Bloomberg Television show “Titans at the Table,” which has a dinner table motif. Stableford writes, “‘When you’re interviewing someone on a set, you tend to get canned answers,’ Andrew Morse, head of Bloomberg’s U.S. television operation, told Yahoo News in a recent interview. ‘With the dinner […]
Biz journalists win Polk Awards
The winners of the 63rd annual George Polk Awards in Journalism were announced Monday by Long Island University, and at least two of the categories had business journalists as the winners. The George Polk Award for National Reporting will go to the staff of The Wall Street Journal for a series of articles that examined […]
