Bloomberg Businessweek app wins Webby
Bloomberg Businessweek‘s app won the Webby Award, announced Tuesday, in the news (Tablet & All Other Devices) category. It is the company’s first Webby award. Bloomberg Businessweek’s app for the iPad, launched in April 2011, has surpassed 100,000 subscribers. The app has helped Bloomberg Businessweek broaden its reach globally with 35 percent of subscribers residing outside […]
WSJ, Bloomberg Businessweek win two Overseas Press Club awards
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek were multiple winners in the Overseas Press Club awards handed out Wednesday night in New York. The Bob Considine Award for best newspaper or news service interpretation of international affairs went to Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Matthew Karnitschnig, David Enrich, Stacy Meichtry, Brian Blackstone, David Gauthier-Villars and Gordon Fairclough […]
Sluggish performance by business magazines in first quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The three largest business magazines — Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes and Fortune — posted positive results in the first quarter, but virtually every other title struggled, particularly those geared toward small businesses and personal finance topics, according to an analysis of Publishers Information Bureau data by Talking Biz News. Of the big […]
Biz magazine content on the iPhone
Justin Ellis of Nieman Labs looks at how Bloomberg Businessweek is experimenting with delivering its content in different ways for iPhone readers. Ellis writes, “As on the iPad, Businessweek offers magazine articles, videos, audio interviews, and more; new issues of the magazines are downloaded into the Newsstand. Aside from obligatory design differences, the apps are […]
Bloomberg Businessweek launches iPhone, iPod apps
Bloomberg Businessweek announced Wednesday that its magazine is now available on the iPhone and iPod touch. Bloomberg Businessweek also announced that its iPad application, launched in April 2011, has now surpassed 100,000 subscribers. The app has helped Bloomberg broaden its reach globally with 35 percent of subscribers residing outside of the United States. “Many of […]
Bloomberg Businessweek, Wired are finalists for National Magazine Awards
Both Bloomberg Businessweek and Wired magazine are finalists in multiple categories for the National Magazine Awards. Inc. was the only other business-related magazine named a finalist — in the special-interest magazine category. Bloomberg Businessweek is a finalist in the general excellence category, along with GQ, New York, The New Yorker and Vice. It is also […]
Taking boring subjects and making them appealing at Businessweek
Joe Pompeo of Capital New York writes Friday about how Bloomberg Businessweek has overhauled its look and its content to make what some believe is boring content more interesting. Pompeo writes, “They set the place up so that art directors would be sitting next to editors would be sitting next to photo editors and so […]
Biz journalist Greising joins Chicago business advocacy group
David Greising, a former business columnist at the Chicago Tribune and reporter for BusinessWeek, is joining Economic Business Chicago, an economic development arm of the city, reports Shia Kapos of Crain’s Chicago Business. Kapos writes, “Mr. Greising, 52, is known for his ability to make complicated business jargon sound like prose — and for his […]
Bloomberg Businessweek hires Time journalist
Claire Suddath, who was an arts and culture writer for Time magazine, has been hired by Bloomberg Businessweek, a magazine spokeswoman confirmed late Friday night. Suddath started at the magazine this week. Suddath, who grew up in Chicago, graduated from Vanderbilt University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Claire had been at Time for […]
Bloomberg Businessweek releases special travel issue
Bloomberg Businessweek, which last year had a sports business special edition, will release a travel special issue this weekend. The issue will include articles about the business traveler, how a Lufthansa flight between San Francisco to Bangalore, India, has been sold out for 11 consecutive years, conventions in Las Vegas, preferred customer programs and concierge […]
