Fortune magazine starts web app
Fortune magazine has built a new application to run inside web browsers on a variety of platforms, reports Nat Ives of Advertising Age. Ives writes, “As a web app, Fortune500+ joins what seems to be a slowly rising tide of apps that run in web browsers instead of the operating systems of particular devices. Magazines, […]
Comparing mortgage-backed securities to chicken parts
A good business journalist needs to provide steady content to their employer so that they can spend the time to report and write the stories they want to cover in their spare time. That was the advice given Friday by Allan Sloan, the senior editor at large at Fortune magazine and one of the top […]
Fortune’s Sloan speaks
Allan Sloan, the senior editor at large for Fortune magazine, spoke Friday afternoon at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers about how he got his start in business journalism.
Fortune's Sloan speaks
Allan Sloan, the senior editor at large for Fortune magazine, spoke Friday afternoon at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers about how he got his start in business journalism.
Bloomberg Businessweek ad pages up 49 percent in first quarter
Bloomberg Businessweek saw a 49 percent increase in advertising pages in the first three months of the year, according to data released Wednesday by the Publisher’s Information Bureau. Its ad revenue rose 65 percent to $46.2 million for the quarter, easily the best performance among the business magazines. Fast Company and Wired magazine also posted […]
Biz magazines named finalists for National Magazine Awards
Five business magazines were named finalists Tuesday for the annual National Magazine Awards, given out by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Fast Company is a finalist in the general excellence category for its July-August, September and November issues. Bloomberg Markets is a finalist in the lifestyle, finance and technology category. Fortune is a finalist […]
The most influential business news organizations
Reuters ranks No. 3, The Wall Street Journal No. 4 and Bloomberg News No. 5 in a ranking of news organizations who have had their reporting cited the most in Google News and Google Blog searches in the past month, according to data compiled by New York Times blogger and statistics-dicer extraordinaire Nate Silver. Jeff […]
The business journalist as manager
Hank Gilman, the deputy managing editor of Fortune, has a book out called “You Can’t Fire Everyone, and Other Lessons from an Accidental Manager” where he discusses his management style in the various business news operations he’s worked out. One of his interesting management philosophies is that if you believe a business journalist would be […]
The best, and worst, biz magazine covers for 2010
If you’re a business magazine, you might want to consider doing more personal finance covers, according to Audit Bureau of Circulation data. The best-performing business magazine covers in 2010 were investment guides and reviews, while the worst covers dealt with professional sports and entertainers, according to a posting on min online. For Bloomberg Businessweek, the […]
Loomis, Quick and Sorkin invited to interview Buffett at annual meeting
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s annual shareholders letter, written by CEO Warren Buffett, was released on Saturday and it disclosed his favorite business journalists. Carol Loomis of Fortune, Becky Quick of CNBC and Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times have been invited once again to attend the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting […]
