Bloomberg names Bremner ME for enterprise in Asia
Brian Bremner, currently assistant managing editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, will become managing editor for enterprise for Bloomberg News in Asia. In his new role, Bremner will work with the beat reporting teams to develop stories out of this dynamic region that will run on the terminal, in Businessweek and on the web. At Businessweek, Bremner was […]
Bloomberg Businessweek hires two new political reporters
Bloomberg Businessweek announced Tuesday that Allison Hoffman and Josh Eidelson will be joining the magazine this month. Both will be based in Washington, D.C. Allison Hoffman will be an associate editor, editing and writing stories for the magazine’s Politics & Policy section and for Businessweek.com. She will start on June 16. Hoffman comes to Bloomberg […]
Bloomberg Businessweek names new creative director
Bloomberg Businessweek editor in chief Josh Tyrangiel sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Effective immediately, Rob Vargas is the new creative director of Bloomberg Businessweek and Tracy Ma is our new deputy creative director. Ok, so they’re not technically ‘new.’ Rob is a founding member of the Bloomberg Businessweek design team and is already […]
How the biz media started B-school rankings
John Byrne, the founder of PoetsandQuants.com and the BusinessWeek editor who started the business school rankings craze back in 1988, writes about how it all began. Byrne writes, “I created the survey on my Macintosh computer at home. I copied about 3,000 of the surveys at work, and with the help of my own family, […]
Keller, fired at Bloomberg Businessweek, lands at PolicyMic
Jared Keller, the social media editor fired at Bloomberg Businessweek, has been hired as director of programming at PolicyMic, a news and aggregation startup geared toward millenials, writes Dylan Byers of Politico. Byers writes, “‘As the homepage continues moving to social and mobile, Jared will lead our efforts to reach young people in the places […]
Business journalist to start radio program
Roben Farzad, a business journalist who has written for Bloomberg BusinessWeek for the past decade, will start a regular radio show on Thursday out of Richmond, Va. The show, called “Full Disclosure,” aims to give listeners a better understanding of business, economics, international affairs and investing through humor, personality and candor. The show will feature major […]
Verity, longtime Businessweek and computer journalist, is dead
John Verity, the former information management editor at BusinessWeek who wrote the acclaimed Nov. 14, 1994, cover story “Doing Business on the Internet,” died this weekend after a long bout with colon cancer. Verity had been writing about computers since 1976, with a special interest in the social and cultural impact of computers and of […]
Lavelle, former Businessweek B-school editor, lands new job
Louis Lavelle, business schools editor for Bloomberg Businessweek from 2005 until he was fired late last year, has found a new job. Lavelle started this week as editor of TopMBA.com and QS Rankings at QS Quacquarelli Symonds. His responsibilities include managing the QS Rankings of the top 200 MBA programs in the world and overseeing […]
Departure of creative director affects Bloomberg overhaul
The departure of star creative director Richard Turley from Bloomberg Businessweek will affect the major gear shift being implemented by Bloomberg Media chief executive Justin Smith, reports Joe Pompeo of Capital New York. Pompeo writes, “Smith is plotting a new course for Bloomberg Media Group that largely focuses on building out a bigger, smarter and […]
Bloomberg making push into luxury coverage
Alexandra Steigrad of Women’s Wear Daily writes Wednesday about how Bloomberg News is making a push to cover more luxury news. Steigrad writes, “According to an internal memo obtained by WWD, Chris Rovzar, the former digital editor of Vanity Fair, will help Bloomberg build its editorial vision for luxury. This includes developing its luxury news […]
