Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek named Ellie finalists
Wired and Bloomberg Businessweek were the only two business-related magazines to receive nominations for the annual American Society of Magazine Editors awards, commonly known as the Ellies. Wired was named a finalist in the general excellence category, which honors publications covering politics, business, science and technology as well as society and culture. It was also […]
Why luxury companies are advertising in business publications
Kali Hays of Women’s Wear Daily writes about why luxury companies are placing more ads in business publications. Hays writes, “Presumably, all of this went into the decisions by Gucci and Burberry to recently work with the Economist, with Gucci placing its digital campaign on the title’s web site for the first time and Burberry […]
Bloomberg Businessweek named Adweek’s hottest biz magazine
Bloomberg Businessweek has been named Adweek’s hottest business magazine, writes Kelsey Sutton of Adweek. Sutton writes, “Bloomberg Businessweek has had another exceptional year, continuing to break news on the business, politics and tech fronts while pushing design boundaries and strengthening the magazine’s digital business. The periodical has a global print circulation of 600,000, and a […]
Bloomberg stands by story of Chinese attack on Amazon, Apple software
Bloomberg News said Thursday that it stands by this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek cover story that reported that Amazon and Apple systems were infiltrated by malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese intelligence agents. Both companies issued statements that strongly denied the story. A Bloomberg News spokeswoman gave the following statement to Talking Biz News: Bloomberg Businessweek’s investigation […]
Heffernan, former BusinessWeek Atlanta bureau chief, dies at 83
Tony Heffernan, who was the BusinessWeek Atlanta bureau chief and later the business editor of the Gwinnett Daily News, has died at the age of 83. Dan Kolber writes for the Atlanta Business Chronicle, “In 1970 he went to work for Reuters in New York City, his hometown. He was immediately dispatched to Ft. Benning, in […]
Killingsworth joining Bloomberg Businessweek as digital editor
Sylvia Killingsworth is joining Bloomberg Businessweek as a digital editor. She starts next week and will be editing features and focusing on developing and advancing its digital expressions. Killingsworth has been the editor of The Awl and managing editor of The New Yorker.
Chafkin tapped as Bloomberg Businessweek features editor
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg’s Brad Stone sent out the following announcement on Monday: Colleagues, Since joining Bloomberg in 2015, few writers have been more prolific in the pages of Businessweek than Max Chafkin. Whether he’s spending time in subterranean muck with Elon Musk, transforming into an Instagram influencer, or collaborating with colleagues […]
Bloomberg Businessweek, Reuters win OPC awards for business reporting
Bloomberg Businessweek and Reuters have won awards from the Overseas Press Club for their business journalism. The Malcolm Forbes Award for best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or digital went to the Reuters staff of Paritosh Bansai, Tom Lassiter, Aditya Kaira, Duff Wilson and team for “The Phillip Morris Files.” The judges […]
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Murphy steps down, replaced by Weber
Megan Murphy, who became Bloomberg Businessweek editor about 14 months ago, is leaving the publication and Bloomberg to spend more time with her family. On Twitter, Murphy wrote, “I am so proud of all this team has accomplished. I am so grateful they let me go along for the ride as we relaunched the magazine […]
The story behind Bloomberg Businessweek’s cartoon strip
Bloomberg Businessweek published a cartoon story earlier this week about Kubernetes, an open-sourced cloud application from Google. We asked Dimitra Kessenides, a news editor who oversees Businessweek’s special Focus On section, to explain how it came about. Here is what she said: Where’d the idea come from? We publish special sections covering the cloud a […]
