Amazon book writer responds to MacKenzie Bezos critique
Brad Stone, the Bloomberg Businessweek reporter who recently published a book about Amazon.com, writes in response to a one-star review the book received from McKenzie Bezos, the wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Stone writes, “No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension — those moments in which character is […]
Business models and business journalism
The second panel discussion at Talking Biz News’ conference at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York invited those on the business end of journalism to talk about the model for making money and what the future may bring. The discussion touched on a variety of topics including pay walls for web sites, […]
Bloomberg Businessweek hires deputy editor for Etc.
Matthew Lynch of Capital New York reports Thursday that Kurt Soller has been hired as the deputy editor of the Etc. section in Bloomberg Businessweek. Pompeo writes, “Soller will join Businessweek from New York magazine’s women’s-interest standalone web portal, The Cut, where he worked as a features editor. He will report to ‘Etc.’ editor Emma Rosenblum, […]
Biz magazines underperform industry in third quarter
The 14 business magazines followed by the Publishers Information Bureau underperformed the magazine industry in the third quarter in terms of advertising revenue and advertising pages. The business magazines recorded ad revenue of $279.3 million, a decline of 1.7 percent, in the third quarter. The ad pages fell 3.2 percent in the third quarter to […]
Five years later: Time versus Businessweek
It’s been five years since the crisis, and the two leading weekly magazines (or the only two left) have vastly different takes on Wall Street and the coverage. Let’s take a look, starting with the covers. Time’s cover was of the Wall Street bull on a white background wearing a party hat complete with confetti. […]
Bloomberg Businessweek turns to film for “Hank”
David Carr of The New York Times writes for Monday’s paper about how Bloomberg Businessweek produced a documentary called “Hank: Five Years From the Brink, ” a new film about the former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. coming out on Thursday, five years after the financial meltdown on Wall Street. Carr writes, “Mr. Tyrangiel said […]
Former BusinessWeek managing editor Dierdorff dies
Jack Dierdorff, who was managing editor of BusinessWeek magazine and worked at the McGraw-Hill publication for 37 years, has died. Former BusinessWeek editor in chief Stephen Shepard wrote on his Facebook page that Dierdorff died Thursday after a long illness. “He was a close colleague at Business Week for many years, a committed journalist who […]
Is Bloomberg Businessweek smart, or a smart ass?
Joe Weber, the former chief of correspondents at BusinessWeek who now teaches journalism at the University of Nebraska, notes that the covers of Bloomberg Businessweek have an increasingly snarky tone to them. Weber writes, “The risk for BB is that its drive to be edgy, particularly in its cover imagery, could easily thrust it over […]
How the Bloomberg Businessweek cover was made
Bloomberg Businessweek has posted a graphic showing how the cover of this week’s issue on the hedge fund industry evolved during the week. Here is the graphic:
Biz magazines underperformed industry in second quarter
The 13 business magazines underperformed the rest of the industry in the second three months of 2013, according to data from the Publishers Information Bureau analyzed by Talking Biz News. While the industry reported a small gain in ad dollars and a 4.5 percent drop in ad pages for the second quarter, the business magazines […]
