Biz magazines outperform industry in second quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 14 business magazines published in the United States outperformed the overall magazine industry in the second quarter in terms of advertising revenue and ad pages. The financial and business magazines reported ad revenue of $328.1 million in the second three months of the year, up 11.3 percent from the same […]
Blodget's big bet on business journalism online
Andrew Goldman of Bloomberg Businessweek writes in the latest issue about former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget and his business news site The Business Insider. Goldman writes, “Blodget added new content and expanded the site into a collection of blogs under the TBI banner — Wall Street, tech, media, and the like. He started aggressively […]
Liking the new Bloomberg Businessweek
David Warsh of EconomicPrincipals.org writes that the revamped Bloomberg Businessweek is now a much more interesting read than when it was owned by McGraw-Hill. Warsh writes, “Instead, each issue begins with what regularly seems to be its best piece, what newsmagaziness used to call a ‘violin,’ here designated ‘Opening Remarks.’ This week it was Hugo […]
Bloomberg Radio reaches syndication deal for Businessweek shows
Bloomberg Radio and United Stations Radio Networks announced Wednesday that Bloomberg Businessweek‘s radio programming will now be nationally syndicated. The new Bloomberg Businessweek radio content will expand upon existing Bloomberg Radio and United Stations Radio Networks’ current offerings to provide updates and in-depth feature programming that impact a broader business audience as well as listeners […]
Welles took on the oil industry
The New York Times has an obituary Wednesday of noted business journalist Chris Welles and recounts how he took on the oil industry in the 1970s. Dennis Hevesi writes, “His 1970 book, ‘The Elusive Bonanza,’ accused the oil industry of neglecting the development of America’s vast oil-shale reserves. It was an expansion of an article […]
WSJ hires another writer from BusinessWeek/Bloomberg
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The Wall Street Journal has hired a second former BusinessWeek writer who became a Bloomberg News hand after it acquired the weekly business magazine. Ben Levisohn will be covering stocks and investing for the Money & Investing section under Ken Brown, according to a source at the Journal. Last week, the […]
Ex-BusinessWeek editor Shepard fondly remembers Welles
Talking Biz News asked Steve Shepard, the editor of BusinessWeek from 1985 to 2005, for some thoughts about business journalist Chris Welles, who worked at BusinessWeek for 13 years and died this weekend. Here is what Shepard, now the dean at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, had to say: “Chris Welles was a genuinely […]
Welles, top business journalist, dies
Chris Welles, who ran the business journalism program at Columbia University and was also a top business journalist for publications such as BusinessWeek, died Saturday after an extended illness. Floyd Norris of the New York Times writes, “Chris ran the Bagehot program (now the Knight-Bagehot program) at Columbia University for many years. That program offers […]
Writer of latest BusinessWeek cover story leaving for WSJ
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Jessica Silver-Greenberg, who wrote the latest cover story for Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine, confirmed to Talking Biz News on Wednesday that she is leaving Bloomberg for a job at The Wall Street Journal. Silver-Greenberg’s cover story was on market experts who have been predicting a bear market. At BusinessWeek, she covered consumer credit, […]
Fortune publisher named publisher of Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg Businessweek announced Wednesday that Hugh Wiley has been named publisher. He succeeds Jessica Sibley, who announced earlier this week she was leaving to become publisher of The Week. Wiley, who is currently publisher of Time Inc.’s Fortune, will be responsible for leading Bloomberg Businessweek’s integrated sales team and driving all global advertising-based revenue for […]
