Bloomberg, Businessweek getting new web addresses
Bloomberg.com and Businessweek.com will be replaced next year by Bloomberg Business, reports Shannon Bond of The Financial Times, part of an overhaul at the financial media company to make it more appealing to consumers. Bond writes, “Bloomberg Business will replace bloomberg.com and businessweek.com early next year. It follows October’s debut of Bloomberg Politics, helmed by […]
Businessweek hires Drummond from The Verge
Katie Drummond, who had been assistant managing editor at The Verge, has been hired as a deputy editor at Bloomberg Businessweek. She started her new job this week. Drummond had been the AME for the tech news site for seven months. Before that, she was the science editor at The Verge, launching Verge Science, the […]
How Bloomberg Businessweek is reinventing the magazine cover
Alissa Walker of Gizmodo writes about the funky Bloomberg Businessweek covers that are unlike any other magazine. Walker writes, “Today’s success is largely thanks to creative director Robert Vargas and deputy creative director Tracy Ma, with a hefty nod to Richard Turley, the creative director who oversaw the relaunch and established the new visual language […]
The intersection of political and business reporting gains prominence
Media outlets are covering more stories that discuss the intersection of politics and business because of the financial crisis that the country experienced in 2008 and 2009, said Joshua Green, a senior national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek, on Tuesday. “Government is at the heart of global and U.S. financial health,” said Green. “My job is […]
Bloomberg Businessweek to publish Czech edition
Bloomberg LP announced plans Wednesday to publish Bloomberg Businessweek Česko, a Czech-language edition of the magazine starting in late November. Under terms of the publishing agreement, Smart Connections will also produce a Czech-language edition of Bloomberg Pursuits, Bloomberg’s award-winning global luxury lifestyle magazine. “Our partnership with Smart Connections further demonstrates Bloomberg’s global reach and continued […]
Bloomberg Businessweek names new photo director
Bloomberg Businessweek editor in chief Josh Tyrangiel sent out the following note to the staff on Tuesday: We have photographic white smoke: Clinton Cargill will be joining Bloomberg Businesswek as our new Director of Photography on October 13. Clinton has been a photo editor at The New York Times Magazine since 2006, producing amazing images […]
Bloomberg Businessweek cover is subversive genius
John Brownlee of Fast Company examines the thinking behind Bloomberg Businessweek‘s last cover of Apple CEO Tim Cook. Brownlee writes, “This isn’t the first Businessweek cover that has made Tim Cook look like an idiot. Just last year, Businessweek put Cook on the cover with the tagline ‘What Us Worry?’, drawing a parallel between the […]
Tyrangiel to head Bloomberg consumer editorial
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel has been promoted at Bloomberg L.P., where he’s been working closely on a revamp of the company’s consumer media division, reports Joe Pompeo of Capital New York. Pompeo writes, “Bloomberg Media Group chief executive Justin Smith announced in an internal memo this morning that Tyrangiel ‘is being elevated to oversee all content […]
Bloomberg Business to replace Businessweek.com
Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review writes Thursday that one of the changes being planned at Bloomberg’s media operations is to rename the Bloomberg Businessweek website to just Bloomberg Business. Starkman writes, “The strategy was not widely shared internally, though some elements have leaked. According to people with knowledge of the strategy, it has […]
Bloomberg’s Smith: Content will still go on terminal first
Joe Pompeo of Capital New York got a partial transcript from a town hall meeting last week at Bloomberg led by Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith and Bloomberg Businessweek editor in chief Josh Tyrangiel where the two discussed the company’s future. Here is an excerpt: “First of all, what’s crystal clear to all of us […]
