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 […]
The media should apologize to Toyota
Ed Wallace writes in the latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek that the media made a mistake with its coverage of Toyota last year but now is not going back to correct its error. Wallace writes, “The Toyota case is no different from the Ford Firestone media frenzy of 11 years ago. Not once did any […]
Bloomberg’s D.C. lobbying effort
Aram Roston of The Nation writes in the Feb. 28 issue how Bloomberg L.P. has an increasingly influential lobbying effort in Washington, including backing the Coalition for Competition in Media, which was created to oppose Comcast’s acquisition of NBC. Roston writes, “In the jockeying over the Comcast-NBC merger, Bloomberg corporate synergy also came into play. […]
This is not your father’s biz magazine
Here is the cover — both versions — of this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek: The man is going to the Western region and the female to the Eastern.
