Bloomberg TV launching tech show
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch reports Friday that Bloomberg Television will launch a show called Bloomberg West that will launch on Monday, airing at 6 p.m. EST. Arrington writes, “The show will focus on technology, innovation and business, says the promo clip that has been running regularly on Bloomberg. It’s being recorded from their new San […]
AP, Bloomberg win Polks
The Associated Press and Bloomberg News won George Polk Awards for their business coverage. The AP was recognized for its recognize the colossal effort in covering last year’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The AP was the first news organization to report that the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig had sank following an […]
Bloomberg to launch Islamic product
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson of the Financial Times writes for Monday’s paper about plans by Bloomberg News to launch an Islamic finance product. Edgecliffe-Johnson writes, “The service, available on more than 300,000 Bloomberg Professional terminals, includes news and data covering more than 1,500 Islamic bond issues, 35,000 stocks and 500 funds, as well as a database of […]
Brennan is star attraction for Bloomberg TV
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman writes Friday about Bloomberg Television anchor Margaret Brennan, whom he believes is its biggest force in its bid to compete with CNBC and Fox Business Network. Friedman writes, “BTV is now in 250 million homes worldwide. It has been investing in new studios, staffers and on-air journalists, including at least […]
Swatch sues Bloomberg over recorded analyst call
Watchmaker Swatch Group has sued Bloomberg LP, accusing the news service of secretly recording a conference call with securities analysts and providing a transcript to clients. Jonathan Stempel of Reuters writes, “In a copyright infringement lawsuit, the Swiss company said Bloomberg had improperly recorded a February 8 earnings call while it was in progress, and […]
Revisiting the Bloomberg TV/Radio layoffs
Jerry Barmash, who was one of the 100 journalists laid off at Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio two years ago, revisits the decision to cut those jobs and catches back up with some of the workers who lost their jobs. Writing for FishbowlNY, Barmash notes, “Dozens were let go, but there were a select few […]
Bloomberg News to sponsor consumer comfort index
Bloomberg News announced Tuesday that it would launch the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index, a weekly, random-sample survey tracking Americans’ views on the condition of the U.S. economy, their personal finances and the buying climate, later this week. The survey, formerly sponsored by ABC News since 1985, will be released for the first time on Thursday. […]
FT reporter joins Bloomberg News
Greg Farrell, a U.S. business reporter for the Financial Times, has joined Bloomberg News this week. Farrell will be working with the Bloomberg News legal team, writing about companies that are dealing with significant legal/regulatory issues. Farrell had been at the FT since 2008. Before that, he spent nine years at USA Today, where he […]
Bloomberg hires editor at large for markets team
Phil Revzin, a longtime Wall Street Journal reporter and editor, has been hired by Bloomberg News to be an editor at large on the markets team. His first day is Monday. He will edit enterprise stories. Revzin is a native of Chicago. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University and a master’s […]
Dissing stock market coverage on TV
Phil Mushnick of the New York Post writes Sunday about how the business news televisions stations recently used the same reason to explain why the stock market was falling and rising. Mushnick writes, “On Jan. 27 and 28, a Thursday and Friday, the market was down. And all the stations I bumped into carried the […]
