CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg Television and market share

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE With Fox Business Network announcing Tuesday that it would start having its shows tracked by Nielsen in terms of audience size, Talking Biz News decided to see what available information was already out there in terms of business news audiences on television. Data is already available for CNBC and Fox Business […]

Using data to recommend business news

Matthew Ingram of GigaOm writes Wednesday about how Bloomberg L.P. uses data about its users to recommend news of interest on its Bloomberg.com and BusinessWeek.com sites. Ingram writes, “In an interview with Stacey Higginbotham, the Bloomberg executive described how he built a predictive-analytics team within the media conglomerate that could use the behavior patterns and […]

Bloomberg combines consumer media operations into one unit

Bloomberg L.P. announced Tuesday that it has formed the Bloomberg Media Group, an operation that combines Bloomberg’s television, print, radio, mobile and digital media properties. Under the new structure, the business operations of Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets magazine, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg.com and Bloomberg Mobile will join together as one unit. The company’s core […]

Bloomberg Government competitor First Street in private beta testing

First Street, a government policy and lobbying service from CQ Press, has entered into private beta testing in advance of its April launch. The service is similar to Bloomberg Government, which launched at the beginning of the year. First Street includes congressional, government and lobbying data. Private beta participants include law/lobbying firms, media organizations, and […]

Fox Business also claims legal victory

Kathryn Glass of FoxBusiness.com has a story on Monday about the Supreme Court turning down the appeal of the banks, requiring the Federal Reserve to disclose who took loans from the government during the 2008 economic crisis. In addition to Bloomberg L.P., which filed the initial request for the documents, Fox Business Network was also […]

Supreme Court rejects appeal in case involving business media

The Federal Reserve must disclose details of emergency loans it made to banks in 2008 as the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by the banking industry to keep the records private after a Bloomberg News reporter requested them using the Freedom of Information Act. Greg Stohr and Bob Ivry of Bloomberg write, “Under […]

Bloomberg Television hires Dubai reporter

Bloomberg Television announced Friday that Lara Setrakian has joined the channel as a reporter based in Dubai. Setrakian, who joins Bloomberg from ABC News in Dubai, has expertise covering the Gulf.  Most recently, she reported on the unrest in the Middle East from Saudi Arabia and Cairo’s Tahrir Square.  While at ABC, Setrakian covered the […]

Bloomberg News top winner in SABEW’s Best in Business

Bloomberg News, with 20 winning entries, garnered the top awards in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ Best in Business Awards, released Friday morning. GlobalPost was second with 10 awards; The New York Times was third with eight winners. Overall, there were 168 winners across 65 categories, from among 904 entries received. Here […]

Bloomberg News top winner in SABEW's Best in Business

Bloomberg News, with 20 winning entries, garnered the top awards in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ Best in Business Awards, released Friday morning. GlobalPost was second with 10 awards; The New York Times was third with eight winners. Overall, there were 168 winners across 65 categories, from among 904 entries received. Here […]

Bloomberg L.P. is New York’s fastest-growing employer

Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York Business reports that Bloomberg L.P. has added 3,400 jobs since 2008, making it New York’s fastest-growing employer. Flamm writes, “Bloomberg LP has gotten plenty of attention for acquiring BusinessWeek in 2009 and hiring journalists in record numbers for its news division. But in fact, most of the 12,900-employee company’s […]