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 […]
Bloomberg and corporate responsibility data
Paul Tullis of Fast Company writes about the initiative to add environmental sustainability data of companies to the Bloomberg terminal. Tullis writes, “Ravenel used this kind of argument to persuade Bloomberg to add ESG data to its terminals. His team spent countless hours assembling and entering data into the system (often by hand) before going […]
Federal Reserve to release documents to biz media on Thursday
The Federal Reserve Bank is set to release Thursday information about what banks borrowed money, and how much, during the height of the financial crisis in 2008, reports Dunstan Prial of Fox Business Network. Bloomberg News and Fox Business sued for the release of the documents. Prial writes, “But Fox Business and Bloomberg News argued […]
Bloomberg launching Capital Intelligence this spring
Bloomberg Government, the new service from Bloomberg covering the intersection between business and politics, will bolster its coverage of Capitol Hill this spring with the introduction of Capitol Intelligence, a feature that will deliver news and insights about what’s happening in Congress. Capitol Intelligence will be part of BGOV.com. Katherine Rizzo, who directed Congressional Quarterly’s […]
