Bloomberg Businessweek AME moving to Bloomberg View

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Paula Dwyer, an assistant managing editor for Bloomberg Businessweek, is taking a new job within the company at Bloomberg View, the commentary service being launched later this year. A magazine spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday afternoon that Dwyer will be writing and editing for Bloomberg View. Dwyer is a 26-year veteran of the […]

Bloomberg Businessweek ad pages up 49 percent in first quarter

Bloomberg Businessweek saw a 49 percent increase in advertising pages in the first three months of the year, according to data released Wednesday by the Publisher’s Information Bureau. Its ad revenue rose 65 percent to $46.2 million for the quarter, easily the best performance among the business magazines. Fast Company and Wired magazine also posted […]

Biz magazines named finalists for National Magazine Awards

Five business magazines were named finalists Tuesday for the annual National Magazine Awards, given out by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Fast Company is a finalist in the general excellence category for its July-August, September and November issues. Bloomberg Markets is a finalist in the lifestyle, finance and technology category. Fortune is a finalist […]

Bloomberg hires AJC reporter

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Matt Kempner, the business editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Friday afternoon: Wonderful Margaret Newkirk has chosen to pursue a new path in her journalistic career. She has accepted a job in Atlanta with Bloomberg. She starts in mid May covering state and […]

The business journalist who beat the Federal Reserve

Here is a video remembrance of Mark Pittman of Bloomberg News, who in May 2008 asked for the documents from the Federal Reserve Bank as to what banks had received money from it during the economic crisis. Pittman died in November 2009 before the courts ruled that the Fed should release the documents. Those documents […]

Mark Pittman would have loved today

Heather Landy of American Banker writes Thursday about Mark Pittman, the Bloomberg News reporter who had the idea of asking the Federal Reserve Board to release the documents that showed which banks had borrowed money during the financial crisis. Pittman died prematurely in November 2009 after initial requesting the documents in May 2008. Bloomberg continued […]

Bloomberg Television’s “Game Changers” boosts website clicks

Joe Pompeo of Yahoo News writes Thursday about “Game Changers,” a show that launched earlier this year on Bloomberg Television. Pompeo writes, “With ‘Game Changers,’ Bloomberg TV has attempted to broaden its reach in the evening, well after the crowd of financial professionals who watch the network’s dayside programming have left their offices and trading-room […]

Bloomberg Television's "Game Changers" boosts website clicks

Joe Pompeo of Yahoo News writes Thursday about “Game Changers,” a show that launched earlier this year on Bloomberg Television. Pompeo writes, “With ‘Game Changers,’ Bloomberg TV has attempted to broaden its reach in the evening, well after the crowd of financial professionals who watch the network’s dayside programming have left their offices and trading-room […]

Fed releases documents to biz media

The Federal Reserve released thousands of pages of secret loan documents under court order, almost three years after Bloomberg LP first requested details of the central bank’s support to banks during the financial crisis, reports Craig Torres of Bloomberg News. Torres writes, “The Fed was forced to make the disclosures after the U.S. Supreme Court […]

Bloomberg Businessweek does not need a paywall, does need iPad app

David Kaplan of PaidContent.org interviewed Bloomberg Businessweek president Paul Bascobert, who was recently put in charge of all of Bloomberg’s consumer news operations. Andrews writes, “The magazine is currently readying its iPad app, which is scheduled to be released sometime in the next few weeks. Bascobert demurred on offering up specifics about the app. ‘There’s […]