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 […]
What if…..
Bloomberg had decided to purchase Dow Jones & Co., the owner of The Wall Street Journal, instead of it being bought by News Corp.? Amanda Gordon of the New York Sun has the answer — a newspaper that Mike Bloomberg brought to the Journal party on Monday where it launched its new New York edition. […]
BusinessWeek loses two more staffers
Despite the relaunch of BusinessWeek magazine, longtime staffers continue to depart the weekly. Tara Kalwarski turned in her ID badges and laptop computer to human resources on Monday. Kalwarski had been the department editor of the Numbers section. She also wrote for the Personal Business section. Kalwarski tells Talking Biz News that she will be […]
Why no scoops in BusinessWeek?
Former BusinessWeek staff writer Gary Weiss has problems with a statement by a Bloomberg executive in Monday’s New York Times that says that all breaking news will appear on the Bloomberg wire first, not in the weekly magazine it recently acquired. Weiss writes, “As far back as the 1990s, BW used to run certain time-sensitive, […]
Fitting BusinessWeek into the Bloomberg culture
Stephanie Clifford of the New York Times writes Monday about the issues facing Bloomberg as it melds BusinessWeek magazine into its operations. Clifford writes, “Mr. Winkler said magazine articles would be evaluated on the same metrics as articles for the terminal: did they move markets? But many of the Businessweek articles do not run on […]
Analyzing the new BusinessWeek
Joe Weber, a former chief of correspondents for BusinessWeek who is now a journalism professor at the University of Nebraska, blogs about his impressions of the new version of the magazine unveiled last week by its new owners, Bloomberg LP. Weber writes, “It also boasts a knockout layout, in some ways a return to the […]
Serwer not worried about redesigned BusinessWeek
Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer tells Gillian Reagan of The Business Insider that he’s not worried about the reworked Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine. “I don’t think they are going to kill anyone,” said Serwer. Reagan writes, “Fortune’s managing editor Andy Serwer shrugs about it. ‘Being big doesn’t mean anything, being the best is what is important,’ […]
Parsing the BusinessWeek masthead
Joe Pompeo of The Business Insider examines the new Bloomberg BusinessWeek masthead to determine where people came from and what their duties are at the glossy. Here’s an example: “Senior Editors: Jim Aley, Eric Gelman, Rose Brady, Jon Kelly, David Rocks “Jim was formerly an assistant managing editor at Fortune. “Eric Gelman was a victim […]
BusinessWeek launches new radio show
Bloomberg Businessweek announced Friday the launch of a weekly two-hour national radio show. The program, called “Bloomberg Businessweek Radio,” airs between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Fridays on Bloomberg Radio, and repeats throughout the weekend including Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Co-hosted by well-known radio personalities Ken Prewitt and Pimm Fox, the program will feature interviews […]
