Media reporter joining Bloomberg Businessweek
Felix Gillette, who covers the media and tech business for the New York Observer, announced Thursday that he has accepted a reporting position at Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. At the Observer, Gillette wrote about TV and digital media. A native of Washington D.C., he is a graduate of St. Albans high school and Columbia University. Previously, […]
War of words continues between BusinessWeek and Fortune
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The snippy comments between Bloomberg Businessweek and Fortune have not abated. Time Inc., the parent of Fortune, held a state of the company meeting Friday and leader John Huey — a former Fortune managing editor — gave a talk. According to those who attended, he said that BusinessWeek was like an […]
Variety hires Lowry, ex-BW staffer, as senior editor
Tom Lowry, a former BusinessWeek staffer, has been hired by Variety as its senior editor. He will be based in New York. A story on Variety’s site states, “Lowry most recently was senior writer and media editor at BusinessWeek. In his decade-plus tenure there, he was responsible for its media and entertainment coverage, including cover […]
BW editor: I'm seeing a lot more skepticism
Bloomberg BusinessWeek editor Josh Tyrangiel talked more with Fishbowl NY’s Joe Ciarallo about his new job, and he notes the skepticism that comes from covering business and the markets.
Former BW editor leaves Bloomberg
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Emily Thornton, a former editor at BusinessWeek who joined the Bloomberg finance team at the end of last year to cover private equity when the magazine was acquired by the news service, has now left the company. Thornton resigned on Wednesday. Within two hours, the Bloomberg terminal said she was no […]
Shoeshine with your biz magazine?
Zach Seward, the outreach editor of WSJ.com, posted this photo on Twitter of Bloomberg BusinessWeek offered free shoeshines in Manhattan.
BusinessWeek overhaul accomplishes its goals
Marion Maneker of The Big Money likes what has been done to Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine. Maneker writes, “The first two issues of Bloomberg BusinessWeek are a veritable Sears catalogue of business news serving each of its core constituencies. From the Bloomberg side, it presents some of the site’s content in a new context, helping buy-side […]
Biz media dominate top of the Media Power 50 list
Five of the top 10 media in the BtoB Magazine’s Media Power 50 list are business media organizations. They include The Wall Street Journal at No. 1, CNBC’s “Power Lunch” at No. 4, The Financial Times at No. 6, Forbes at No. 7 and Bloomberg BusinessWeek at No. 8. For “Power Lunch,” Kate Maddox writes, […]
BusinessWeek and banned words
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of TheDeal, went looking through the first issue of the renovated Bloomberg BusinessWeek to see if she could find some of the words — but, however, despite, although — that are banned from usage by Bloomberg News staffers. Kantrow writes, “There was hardly a ‘but’ to be found, though I […]
BusinessWeek's ad campaign: Hey, we're a business weekly
Robert Andrews of PaidContent.org writes Tuesday about Bloomberg BusinessWeek‘s new ad campaign, which promotes the weekly business magazine as…a weekly business magazine. Andrews writes, “The campaign also includes issuing sample magazines in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Spain; and sticking ads on taxis in London and Frankfurt from May 4. “The campaign as […]
