Bloomberg looking to launch Arabia TV channel

Financial media giant Bloomberg LP is reportedly in talks with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia to launch a new Arabic-language business news channel. Neal Ungerleider of Fast Company writes, “Regional newspapers are reporting that Bloomberg and Alwaleed are in talks to launch the new channel, which would be formally announced within the […]

Bloomberg Businessweek to expand in Europe and Asia, up rate base

Bloomberg Businessweek announced Monday that it will expand its reach in Europe and Asia with two new regional editions and raise its rate base from 900,000 to 980,000 in early 2012.. Bloomberg Businessweek has seen a strong pattern of growth since relaunching in 2010. The global edition of Bloomberg Businessweek posted a 14% increase in […]

Bloomberg releases statement about Comcast filing with FCC

Here is the statement released late Wednesday by Greg Babyak, head of government affairs at Bloomberg LP, in response to Comcast’s filing with the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday regarding complaints from Bloomberg that the cable system operator needs to move Bloomberg Television closer to CNBC: After a comprehensive review lasting nearly one year, this […]

Comcast fires back at Bloomberg

Comcast Corp. has fired back at Bloomberg LP, which last month asked the Federal Communications Commission to determine whether the cable giant has violating the conditions the federal government put on it in return for approving its takeover of NBCUniversal. Joe Flint of the Los Angeles Times writes, “At issue is where Bloomberg’s financial news channel […]

Uncovering the uncovered billionaires

Keith Kelly of the New York Post has an item Wednesday about Matthew Miller of Bloomberg News, who will have an article in the next issue of Bloomberg Markets about billionaires who have never appeared on Forbes’ list. Kelly writes, “When Matthew Miller was at Forbes, he was the global wealth editor, in charge of […]

Bloomberg Businessweek with your Friday morning paper

Bill Mickey of Audience Development writes about how Bloomberg Businessweek is being delivered in new ways to subscribers, including with the morning newspaper in some markets. Mickey writes, “Currently, 9 percent of the magazine’s 860,000 domestic print subscribers already receive the magazine this way. The publisher wants to expand into other metro regions and raise […]

Dow Jones hires Bensinger to replace Cheng

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Dow Jones Newswires has hired Greg Bensinger from Bloomberg News to cover telecom and technology. Bensinger replaces Roger Cheng, who left last month for a job with CNET. Bensinger has covered telecom for the past 14 months. Before that, he covered the newspaper industry for 18 months and the auto industry […]

Bloomberg hires WSJ’s Gruley

Wall Street Journal Chicago bureau chief Bryan Gruley will join Bloomberg News as reporter-at-large in September, Bloomberg News announced Friday. Gruley will report to Laurie Hays, executive editor for company news, and will focus on feature reporting for Bloomberg Businessweek. Gruley will join Bloomberg from the Journal where he has spent the last 16 years, […]

Bloomberg hires Franklin for editor at large position in DC

Tim Franklin, the director of the National Sports Journalism Center at the Indiana University School of Journalism, will join Bloomberg News in early August as an editor-at-large in the Washington bureau. Franklin, who was the Louis A. Weil Jr. Endowed Chair at IU, will join the center’s National Advisory Board to stay involved with the […]

The world of Bloomberg Media Group CEO Andy Lack

Bostonia magazine, the magazine of Boston University, profiles Bloomberg Media Group CEO Andy Lack in its summer issue. Art Jahnke writes, “There is an update on a new website devoted to mergers and acquisitions, a proposal to put Bloomberg video on 1,500 video screens atop gas pumps in the Tri-State area (‘The only thing we […]