Handling the new biz journalism
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of The Deal, examines how some publications are trying to cover the world of business and finance in the 21st century and decides that The Huffington Post and The Atlantic have it figured out better than Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Kantrow writes, “The Huffington Post, for one, has signed on telegenic econoblogger […]
Byrne: Business journalism will rise again, but online
Former BusinessWeek executive editor John Byrne writes in the latest issue of PRWeek that he believes that business journalism, despite the monetary and staff losses from the past few years, will return to its glory days soon, but it will be on the Internet. Byrne writes, “Amid all the havoc and pain, I’ll make a […]
BusinessWeek will be quality with hiring of new editors
James Ledbetter, the editor of The Big Money site, likes the hiring of former Fortune managing editor Eric Pooley and New York magazine editorial director Hugo Lindgren to help oversee the content in Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek. Ledbetter writes, “The external message seems to be that BW is going to put a premium on the high-quality writing […]
BW names exec editor, deputy editor in first move by new chief
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Bloomberg BusinessWeek editor Josh Tyrangiel made his first major moves since being named to the top spot by picking a deputy editor and an executive editor. Here is his announcement late Thursday to the staff: “It’s my pleasure to announce a few additions to the Bloomberg BusinessWeek staff. “Eric Pooley will […]
Bloomberg exec: BusinessWeek is another platform for us
David Kaplan of PaidContent.org caught up with Bloomberg multimedia CEO Andrew Lack at the SIIA Industry Summit and talked to him about the company’s plans for new acquisition BusinessWeek. Here is an excerpt: Turning to BusinessWeek, which has now been officially part of Bloomberg for nearly two months now, you were asked earlier if the […]
Ex-Time art director helping with BusinessWeek redesign
Keith Kelly of the New York Post reports that Arthur Hochstein, the former art director at Time magazine, is headed to work for Bloomberg as a consultant on a redesign of its recently acquired BusinessWeek magazine. Kelly writes, “Hochstein’s predecessor, BusinessWeek Art Director Andrew Horton, left the magazine Friday, after having joined in 2007 and […]
A sense of mistrust between Bloomberg and BusinessWeek
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman writes Monday about the mistrust that still exists between Bloomberg and BusinessWeek staffers now that the former owns the latter. Friedman writes, “Remember, BusinessWeek veterans don’t exactly have a reputation for opening their arms to a newcomer. These are the same wags who dubbed Steve Adler as ‘Steve Two’ not […]
BusinessWeek's changes under Bloomberg
Lucia Moses of MediaWeek takes a look at the changes at BusinessWeek under Bloomberg ownership, noting that new editor Josh Tyrangiel agrees with Bloomberg editor in chief Matt Winkler about tightening its sourcing. Moses writes, “Josh Tyrangiel, who was appointed by Bloomberg as the magazine’s new editor, said the weekly would be more sensitive about […]
BusinessWeek story taken off Internet after error discovered
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE A story in the latest issue of BusinessWeek has been taken off the magazine’s Web site after an error was discovered in its content. The story, titled “How Much are Twitter’s Tweets Really Worth” now simply contains the text, “This story contained a factual error that rendered its premise incorrect. The […]
Biz magazine ad revenue declined 22% in 2009, ad pages dropped 28.7%
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Advertising in 15 business magazines in 2009 fell by $340 million, or 21.7 percent, to $1.23 billion, due to the lingering recession, according to a Talking Biz News analysis of numbers released Tuesday by the Publishers Information Bureau. Advertising pages in those same 15 magazines fell by 28.7 to 12,844.59 pages, […]
