Bloomberg Businessweek seeks design editor
Bloomberg Businessweek is seeking a design editor. The person in this role will have oversight of all design and data visualization for Businessweek.com. Additionally, this person should have experience with designers and developers. This role will be responsible for writing, editing and creating a design destination on the web and in the magazine that is […]
Bloomberg Businessweek seeks B-school reporter
Bloomberg Businessweek is seeking a Junior Online Reporter Consultant for its Business Schools vertical. The reporter will cover a wide range of issues relevant to prospective MBAs, business school students and b-school alumni. They will also write content to accompany the annual business school rankings packages. Beyond the relevant professional experience, our ideal candidate will […]
Bloomberg Businessweek’s six-cover story
This week’s edition of Bloomberg Businessweek rolled out with six different covers each featuring a low-paid worker in a story about raising the minimum wage. Peter Coy wrote the story: Raising the minimum wage is certain to be a wedge issue for Democrats in the midterm elections because it’s the rare redistributive measure that enjoys broad […]
Forbes leads biz media among digital audience
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes Media, writes about how business news media are attempting to increase their digital audience. Dvorkin writes,”I saw the numbers in the chart below (November 2013) for the first time a few weeks ago when comScore came in to tell us about its multi-platform reporting capabilities. The light […]
Bloomberg Businessweek hires new editor to cover B schools
Bloomberg Businessweek has hired Francesca Levy, a senior editor at LinkedIn, to lead its coverage of business schools, reports John Byrne of PoetsandQuants.com. Byrne writes, “Levy joined the magazine today (Jan. 27) and succeeds Louis Lavelle who abruptly left BusinessWeek in early November. “For Levy, who has worked for Forbes and Associated Press, her new […]
Bloomberg committed to print, but Businessweek issues could decline
Joe Pompeo of Capital New York writes Friday about Bloomberg executive Justin Smith, and whether Bloomberg Businessweek could see a decline in the number of issues it publishes each year. Pompeo writes, “Sources with knowledge of the matter said that Smith and Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel have indeed had discussions about what sorts of […]
Biz magazines underperformed industry in 2013
Business magazines brought in fewer ad dollars in 2013 compared to the previous year, underperforming in an industry saw a slight increase in advertising revenue. The 14 business magazines reported ad revenue of $1.33 billion in 2013, down 4.8 percent from 2012, according to data from the Publishers Information Bureau analyzed by Talking Biz news. […]
Businessweek’s Stone wins Book of the Year
Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Brad Stone won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2013 for “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.” The book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. […]
Largest issue of BusinessWeek since 1999
The largest issue of Businessweek since 1999 is on newsstands on Friday. It’s also the largest issue since Bloomberg purchased the magazine in 2009. At 212 pages, with more than 111 pages of ads, Bloomberg Businessweek’s “The Year Ahead: 2014” is a special, perfect-bound issue that is part of Bloomberg L.P.’s new global media franchise […]
Editors overseeing Businessweek B school rankings depart
The two editors who oversaw Bloomberg Businessweek‘s coverage of business schools have left the weekly business magazine, multiple sources have confirmed. Louis Lavelle, the magazine’s business schools editor since 2005, and Geoff Gleckler are no longer at the magazine, just weeks after the magazine revised its rankings of top MBA programs due to a calculation […]
