Bloomberg Businessweek’s Grobart hired as executive editor of CNN Tech
Sam Grobart has been hired as the new executive editor of CNN Tech based in New York. Grobart joins CNN from Bloomberg Businessweek where he was a writer and managing editor of Bloomberg’s digital video team. Prior to that, Grobart was the personal technology editor and assistant technology editor at The New York Times. He […]
Biz magazines among Ellie finalists
The American Society of Magazine Editors released the list of finalists for the 2017 National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital Media. Here are the business magazines that are finalists: Bloomberg Businessweek — general excellence in the news, sports and entertainment category. Wired — leisure interests for “What to Eat Today,” August. Bloomberg Businessweek — website. […]
Politico hires Bloomberg Businessweek senior editor Hoffman
Politico top editors Carrie Budoff Brown, Paul Volpe and Karey Van Hall sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Hi all — We’re thrilled to announce that Allison Hoffman, a senior editor for Bloomberg Businessweek, will be our new national editor directing coverage of the new Trump administration, from the West Wing to Foggy Bottom, K Street, […]
Poets & Quants and the growth of biz school coverage
John Byrne, the editor in chief of business school news site Poets & Quants, has the distinction of creating the first business school ranking back in 1988 for Businessweek. Business school rankings have since become a cottage industry for business news media, with lists being pumped out on a regular basis by Forbes, U.S. News, […]
Patterson, editor of editorial page at Business Week, dies at 91
Jack Eugene Patterson, who served Business Week magazine as its Atlanta bureau chief and later the editor of its editorial page, died Monday at the age of 91 in Maine. Patterson joined the McGraw-Hill publication in 1955 and stayed until his retirement in 1987. He continued to write for the magazine after retirement, primarily penning book […]
Remembering Jack Patterson, longtime Businessweek staffer
Steve Shepard, who was editor in chief of Businessweek from 1984 to 2005, wrote the following for Talking Biz News following the death of Jack Patterson, a former Businessweek reporter and editor, this week at the age of 91: When I first came to BW as a cub in 1966, Jack Patterson sat in the office […]
Bloomberg Businessweek publisher Bosso is out
Bloomberg Businessweek publisher Michelle Bosso left the magazine last week during the purge of its top editorial staffers, reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post. Kelly writes, “That makes it a clean sweep since BBW veteran Ellen Pollock, who held the editor-in-chief job for the past year, was also given the old heave-ho and replaced by […]
Bloomberg EIC Micklethwait explains layoffs, reorg
Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait sent out the following to its editorial and research staff on Thursday: To All in Bloomberg Editorial & Research, Today has been a tough day for the newsroom. No editor likes to say farewell to good journalists, but these are necessary changes that fit into the long-term strategy that we laid […]
Businessweek was at odds with the rest of Bloomberg
James Warren writes for Poynter Thursday that the departure of Bloomberg Businessweek editor Ellen Pollock and the decision to revamp the magazine signals its inability to make money and its different strategy from Bloomberg’s core news operation. Warren writes, “Michael Bloomberg, the founder of the financial news goliath, had spent many millions of dollars to revive Businessweek. He […]
Murphy named Bloomberg Businessweek editor; revamped magazine in 2017
Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait and Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith sent out the following announcement on Thursday: To everybody in Bloomberg Businessweek from John Micklethwait and Justin Smith, We know that Ellen is talking to many of you about her departure from Bloomberg Businessweek. We have booked some time to speak to all […]
