Bloomberg Media CEO: We’re clicking on all cylinders
Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith sent the following to the global media staff on Wednesday: Dear Colleagues, Congratulations to many teams across Media, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Digital, Bloomberg LIVE, Bloomberg West, and Bloomberg Radio on collaboration across “What Is Code?”. What we built together around Code clearly demonstrated our multi-platform power and potential–taking a […]
Harvard Business Review seeks digital video producer
Harvard Business Review, the world’s most influential source of management ideas and an innovative multiplatform media brand, is looking for a digital video producer. This is a six-month contract position. To be successful in this position, you must be curious, flexible, and data-driven, and you must love the web. You’ll be happy at HBR if […]
Quartz launches podcast with Marketplace
Tim Fernholz and Kevin Delaney of Quartz write about the business news site’s new podcast, called Actuality. Fernholz and Delaney write, “An audio product is a visceral and immediate way to recreate the moment when someone leans over from the next desk and says, ‘get a load of this story.’ Quartz’s Tim Fernholz and Marketplace’s […]
WSJ to launch paid news app
The Wall Street Journal plans to roll out its first mobile-only product —a paid, digest-style news app that’s said to be an ambitious project for the paper as it consolidates resources around digital and reconfigures its newsroom through staff buyouts. Joe Pompeo of Capital New York writes, “The app will be called What’s News, named […]
Apple taps Bloomberg for first news app
Bloomberg Business was named Monday a business news launch partner of Apple’s iOS9 news reading experience at Monday’s Worldwide Developers Conference. The news from Bloomberg Business that will be available on the app will be curated by its team of mobile editors and include text, photos, graphics, and videos. Content will originate from the Bloomberg […]
Livestreaming the jobs report
In a new effort, the homepage of CNNMoney.com featured Friday morning a livestream program called Jobs Day in America starting at 8:30 a.m., when the monthly unemployment data were released. The program will feature financial reporters Paul La Monica, Alison Kosik, Jose Pagliery and special guest Christine Romans. They broke down the report, deciphered what it means […]
Dow Jones hires CTO of consumer products from FT
Dow Jones & Co. chief technology officer Paul Meller sent out the following announcement on Thursday: Dear Colleagues, I am very excited to welcome John O’Donovan to the Technology Leadership team as CTO, Consumer Products and Platforms. Alignment between our products and platforms is key to delivering world-class content and our continued success in digital. […]
Fortune launching video show “The Chat”
Patricia Sellers of Fortune writes about the magazine’s new video show called “The Chat.” Sellers writes: Fortune is launching a new video interview show that will feature prominent business leaders in an interactive “ask me anything” format. This Thursday, Fortune will launch The Chat at Facebook’s offices in Menlo Park, California, with an hour-long interview […]
Bloomberg Business has best traffic month ever
Bloomberg Business recorded its best traffic month ever in April, reaching 20.8 million unique visitors in the U.S. and surpassing WSJ.com for the first time. In addition, Bloomberg Business video audiences were larger than AOL Money and Finance for the first time with video unique visitors up 206 percent year-over-year. Bloomberg Business, which launched on […]
AP Business launches Twitter feed
The Associated Press business news desk has launched a Twitter feed at @APBusiness. “@APBusiness will be dedicated to sharing some of AP’s published stories on business and the economy and engaging with news makers and readers interested in these topics,” said AP deputy business editor Brad Foss. “We view @APBusiness, and social media in general, […]
