BusinessWeek staff, one year later: Where are they now?
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE One year ago today, Bloomberg L.P. acquired BusinessWeek magazine, renaming it Bloomberg Businessweek. As part of the deal, dozens of BusinessWeek staffers lost their jobs, either by layoffs or via buyouts. Others left soon after. Some found other jobs, but some did not. It was the biggest upheaval of business journalists […]
Bloomberg Businessweek senior writer resigns
David Henry, a senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek and one of a handful of business journalists remaining from before Bloomberg bought the publication, resigned on Monday. Henry was covering banking on what Bloomberg calls the finance team. Some of his stories were used in Bloomberg Businessweek. Henry tells Talking Biz News that he’s looking for […]
Bloomberg Businessweek, one year later
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE One year ago this week, Bloomberg L.P. closed on its acquisition of BusinessWeek magazine from McGraw-Hill. It hired Time deputy managing editor Josh Tyrangiel to be the magazine’s new editor and renamed the publication Bloomberg Businessweek. The publication moved from McGraw-Hill’s building near Rockefeller Center to Bloomberg’s offices near Central Park. […]
Bloomberg Law discounting pricing to gain market share
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson of the Financial Times writes for Monday’s paper about Bloomberg Law, which has dramatically lowered its price to take customers away from LexisNexis and WestLaw. Edgecliffe-Johnson writes, “Lou Andreozzi, a former LexisNexis executive appointed last month to chair Bloomberg Law, said he expected many law firms and corporate lawyers to prefer its flat […]
Bloomberg and editor Winkler, 20 years later
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson of the Financial Times profiles Bloomberg News editor in chief Matt Winkler as the news service celebrates 20 years in existence and looks to grow. Edgecliffe-Johnson writes, “There is ‘a dark, satanic-like struggle’ between information and misinformation, he says, and too many news organisations are financially hobbled, incapable of doing the rigorous reporting […]
Bloomberg News, insider trading, and a business partner
Robert Wenzel of the EconomicPolicyJournal.com reports that Bloomberg News, in its reporting on the insider trading investigation by the FBI, may find itself reporting about a business partner, Gerson Lehrman Group. Wenzel writes, “Speculation continues that a major focus of the current government insider trading centers around ‘expert networks.’ From the start we pointed out […]
Banks file motion to prevent release of data to media
A banking association has filed a second petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block the disclosure of Federal Reserve emergency-lending data to the business media, reports Brent Kendall of Dow Jones Newswires. Kendall writes, “At issue is a March ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that required the Fed to release […]
Kedrosky to write for Bloomberg
Paul Kedrosky, founder of the popular blog Infectious Greed, has joined Bloomberg as a contributor across the company’s various properties, including Bloomberg.com. He was previously an analyst for CNBC and contributor for TheStreet.com but will now be commenting exclusively for Bloomberg, although he will continue to operate Infectious Greed. Kedrosky writes, “Further, it is a […]
BGov: Your Daily Racing Form for business
Jack Shafer of Slate.com writes Thursday about Bloomberg Government, the news service being launched at the beginning of next year that will cover the intersection between business and government, and likens it to a horse racing tip sheet. Shafer writes, “The burgeoning genre represented by Bloomberg Government exists not because an audience wants to read […]
Bloomberg TV hires Shanghai reporter
Margaret Conley, formerly a Tokyo correspondent for U.S.-based ABC News, has joined Bloomberg Television as a reporter based out of the company’s new Shanghai bureau. Conley will cover business and political news and conduct interviews with newsmakers across the Asia-Pacific region for Bloomberg’s global television network. Prior to joining Bloomberg in September 2010, Conley served […]
