Pollock departs editor’s role at Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Ellen Pollock, who has been editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek for the past 13 months, has left the position, multiple sources have confirmed. Pollock had been with the magazine since 2007. She previously was deputy editor and took over the top spot after Josh Tyrangiel left. Pollock was previously with The Wall Street Journal for 18 […]
Bloomberg Businessweek hires Keehn as its new features editor
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following announcement on Monday: We’re excited to announce that Jeremy Keehn is joining Bloomberg Businessweektoday as a features editor. Jeremy was most recently a news and business editor at NewYorker.com, where he edited writers we’re sure you’ve read (Suroweicki, Cassidy, Vauhini Vara (wrote our “Coders Like Us” cover story), […]
“Planet Money” hires senior editor from Bloomberg Businessweek
Neal Carruth, the supervising senior editor for the business desk at National Public Radio, sent out the following announcement: Hi folks: Planet Money is delighted to announce the arrival of Bryant Urstadt as our new senior editor. Bryant joins the team from Bloomberg Businessweek, where he was a top features editor. While there, he helped the magazine […]
Bloomberg Businessweek seeks social media editor
Bloomberg’s social and audience development team is seeking a social media editor/audience engagement editor to build Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s social media presence across all platforms. You will work with editors and designers to optimize feature stories for web and social, plan for and execute live streams from events and interviews, and work directly with our social […]
Kolhatkar leaving Bloomberg Businessweek
Sheelah Kolhatkar, an editor and writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, is leaving the magazine to become a staff writer at The New Yorker, reports Joe Pompeo of Politico. Pompeo writes, “This will be Kolhatkar’s second tour at parent company Condé Nast, where she was a contributing editor at short-lived business glossy Condé Nast Portfolio in the late […]
Deputy creative director leaving Bloomberg Businessweek
Tracy Ma, the deputy creative director of Bloomberg Businessweek, is leaving the magazine to join a startup. Ma writes, “It was there that I learned that editorial design is so much more than commissioning a cute illustration to support a block of text. That the most successful, most seductive telling of ideas are often a […]
Bloomberg Businessweek hires Purves as features editor
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following announcement to the staff on Monday: I’m pleased to announce that Miranda Purves is joining Bloomberg Businessweek today as a features editor. Miranda was most recently the editor in chief of Flare magazine in Toronto, where she oversaw a major redesign of the 37 year-old Canadian […]
Reuters wins business journalism award from Silurians
A series of Reuters stories on how Wall Street was working to weaken its regulations has won the business and financial news category at the Silurians’ annual Excellence in Journalism Awards dinner in New York on Wednesday. Here are the business and financial honorees: Medallion: Reuters, “Wall Street’s Way” by Charles Levinson. This penetrating, deeply reported […]
Giorgi, ex-Bloomberg Businessweek visual journalist, joins Dallas daily
Jon McClure, data and news application editor at the Dallas Morning News, sent out the following staff announcement: I’m happy to share that Ariana Giorgi will be joining our newsroom as our third computational journalist. She’ll start early next month. Ariana comes to us from The Chronicle of Higher Education where she was a database reporter and developer. […]
Bloomberg Businessweek to stop ranking undergrad B schools
John Byrne of PoetsandQuants.com reports that Bloomberg Businessweek has decided to stop ranking undergraduate business schools. Byrne reports, “The announcement was made in an email from Bloomberg Businessweek staffer Francesca Levy. Levy, editor of what Bloomberg calls Game Plan, did not provide a reason for the cutback. But the magazine lost its experienced team of journalists […]
