BW made a mistake when it fired Bernstein
The New Republic’s John Judis wrote that BusinessWeek made a mistake two weeks ago when it laid off labor writer Aaron Bernstein. Judis wrote, “Bernstein was terrific at it. If you had wanted to follow the growing conflict between afl-cio President John Sweeney and his former protégé, Andy Stern (of the Service Employees International Union), […]
All Business 2.0 writers will be blogging soon
Josh Quittner, the editor of Business 2.0, stated at a conference earlier this week that he anticipated all of the writers at the Time magazine to be blogging as a way to differentiate itself. Rohit Bhargava wrote, “As editor of what I would consider one of the more forward thinking publications in the market today, […]
A rare time for business magazines
Has there ever been a time where there was more upheaval and change in the business magazine business than what has occurred in the past four to six months? I can think of only one other period — the time between September 1929 and February 1930, when both BusinessWeek and Fortune launched to compete against […]
More on BusinessWeek layoffs
The New York Post’s Keith Kelly has some of the names of the editorial staff members at BusinessWeek who lost their jobs on Thursday as part of a layoff. Kelly wrote, “There were no staff announcements on the 12 facing the ax, but Media Ink hears the list includes Chris Summerson, a 28-year veteran who […]
A dozen staffers, including former ME, leaving BusinessWeek
A dozen staff members of BusinessWeek, including former managing editor Mark Morrison, are leaving the magazine, according to the Romenesko web site. Except for Morrison, who is retiring, the rest are being laid off. The Romenesko site stated, “BusinessWeek communications director Kimberly Quinn responds to Romenesko’s inquiry about layoffs: ‘There will be a reduction of […]
BusinessWeek planning redesign amid departure of art director
Women’s Wear Daily reporter Stephanie Smith noted in Thursday’s edition that BusinessWeek magazine is working on a redesign that has included bringing in people from other magazines to critique the glossy. However, the McGraw-Hill weekly has lost its art director this week. Smith wrote, “Top editors at BusinessWeek this summer invited Gary Belsky and Neil […]
CN Portfolio: The last of the big magazine launches
Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York writes in the weekly business newspaper that Conde Nast’s launch of Portfolio magazine next year will likely be the last huge, multi-million dollar magazine launch in the industry. Flamm wrote, “Conde Nast says that it won’t back away from new launches, either–even ones as expensive as Portfolio’s. “‘If we […]
Business mags try new platforms
BusinessWeek has begun providing mobile content with the launch of BusinessWeek Mobile Edition, available free of charge at www.businessweek.mobi. According to the release, this deal makes Business Week the first global magazine to utilize the .mobi domain and will incorporate the best of BusinessWeek magazine and BusinessWeek.com with an interface adapted for portable devices like […]
Marcial strives to produce "best" column each week
BusinessWeek columnist Gene Marcial, who writes about the stock market, gave an interview to the Asian Journal in which he described his job.Amee Enriquez wrote, “Asked to describe his column, Gene wrote, ‘Well, it is a news story column that reports on what important investors are doing in the stock market. My sources tell me […]
Hiding notes from the cleaning lady
Former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss, the author of “Wall Street vs. America,” noted on his blog Wednesday that he once hid his notes for a story because he didn’t want a cleaning lady to find them after he left the office for the day. He thought he was being paranoid until the disclosure in the […]
