Shanker moving to Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg News reporter Deena Shanker is moving to Bloomberg Businessweek to cover the intersection of business and food. She will also be covering health and personal products. Shanker has been at Bloomberg for nine years. She previously spent a year at Quartz covering food and consumer goods. Shanker also worked at Fortune and BuzzFeed News. She is […]
Businessweek, STAT News wins Polk Awards
The George Polk Award for technology reporting has been awarded to Olivia Carville and Cecilia D’Anastasio of Bloomberg Businessweek for stories about child safety online that revealed how predators have used the Roblox gaming platform to groom and exploit children, how “sextortion” scammers blackmailed teens via Instagram and how drug dealers sold fentanyl to kids using Snapchat. The stories had […]
The Verge, Rest of World, Business Insider named magazine award finalists
The following business publications have been named finalists in The American Society of Magazine Editors’ 60th annual National Magazine Awards: The Verge in the general excellence, news, sports and entertainment category; Rest of World in the design category for “The Changing Face of Protest,” “2024 AI Elections Tracker” and “Digital Divinity”; Business Insider in the […]
Felcyn, longtime BusinessWeek editor, has died
Keith Felcyn, a longtime editor at BusinessWeek magazine, died on Dec. 10 in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he lived since 1975. He was 92. Felcyn worked as a senior editor and chief of correspondents for BusinessWeek magazine for 41 years. He also was manager of the Milwaukee bureau and the Chicago bureau. While in Chicago, he […]
Longtime biz journalist Ellis is retiring
James Ellis, longtime business journalist at Bloomberg Businessweek, is retiring. He most recently has been assistant managing editor of the magazine, but he’s also been op-ed editor, chief of correspondents, senior writer and bureau chief in Atlanta and Chicago. Ellis started his career at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He joined BusinessWeek in 1980. Ellis specialized […]
Neff, longtime Businessweek staffer, dies at 77
Robert C. Neff, a former Businessweek staffer who covered the rise of the Japanese economy, died July 31 at the age of 77. Bill Holstein writes for The Japan Times, “Neff was part of a golden age of magazine journalism. He circled the globe with postings in Honolulu, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London and New York. American […]
Milian named deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek
Mark Milian has been named deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek. He’s overseeing the news teams at Businessweek, including digital and the magazine’s front of the book. Milian previously was a teach features editor and managing editor of U.S. technology coverage. He also was team leader for venture capital coverage. Before Bloomberg, Milian was a tech writer […]
EIC Stone on the Businessweek brand
Sarah Scire of Nieman Lab interviewed Bloomberg Businessweek editor in chief Brad Stone about the magazine’s brand. Here is an excerpt: SARAH SCIRE: I have a big-picture question to ask right away. In this age of digital daily news — including on Bloomberg.com — and print magazines shrinking or folding and Substacks and all the rest, what is a magazine brand […]
BW editor Stone: Print will make a comeback
Bloomberg Businessweek editor in chief Brad Stone believes print journalism could make a comeback as the 95-year-old title moved from weekly to monthly circulation this week, reports Dominic Ponsford of Press Gazette. Ponsford writes, “Print daily newspapers have perhaps a decade left, going on current rates of decline. Does Stone think the Businessweek monthly print edition will […]
Behr, former BusinessWeek and NY Times staffer, dies at 84
Soma Golden Behr, who worked at BusinessWeek as chief economics correspondent and then the business desk of the New York Times, died Sunday at the age of 84. Trip Gabriel of the Times reports, “Hired by The Times as an economics reporter in 1973 after 11 years at Business Week, Ms. Golden Behr was often one […]
