Bloomberg Media redesigns Apple TV app with focus on data

Sahil Patel of Digiday looks at how Bloomberg Media has redesigned Apple TV with a focus on data. Willens writes, “For instance, if users are watching the live TV feed and Elon Musk appears on the screen, information about the tech CEO and his businesses will surface there as well. A similar capability is also available […]

Investor’s Business Daily, one year later, thrives with apps, website

Investor’s Business Daily, which one year ago cut its five-days-per-week print newspaper down to one day, expects to record its most profitable year since the 2008 financial crisis due to the strength of its website and new digital products. Unique visitors to its Investors.com website have increased by more than 200 percent in the past […]

The Economist and the redesign of its website

Lucinda Southern of Digiday writes about The Economist’s web redesign, which is rolling out slowly. Southern writes, “A year ago, The Economist had a new design ready to go. Rather than push it live and trumpet the new site in a press release, the publisher took a go-slow approach, showing it to just .5 percent of its visitors […]

What’s behind the changes at “Marketplace”

Meg James of the Los Angeles Times examines the changes at public radio business news show “Marketplace.” James writes, “Marketplace, which is produced in downtown Los Angeles by American Public Media, is the most popular business program broadcast in the U.S., with an average of 14.6 million listeners a week. In the last year, the 28-year-old […]

How Forbes’ new story format caters to the Snapchat crowd

Linda Tucci of TechTarget.com writes about how Forbes’ new mobile website and story format caters to the Snapchat crowd. Tucci writes, “In its ongoing quest to remain viable, Forbes, like many of its media peers, is taking an intense interest in Millennial readers, Howard said — in particular, the way in which they access digital content (with […]

New editor Leaf on what’s ahead for Fortune magazine

Caysey Welton of MIN interviewed new Fortune editor in chief Clifton Leaf about the business magazine’s future. Here is an excerpt: min: Do you have any new initiatives you plan to launch as editor or can we expect any big changes to the brand? Leaf: We do have a few ambitious editorial projects in the works—and, yes, there […]

Richmond paper cuts standalone biz section

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is cutting its standalone business section during the week amid layoffs that included its deputy business editor, reports Mark Robinson of Richmond magazine. Deputy business editor Greg Shriver was among 33 cut from the newspaper. He had joined the paper a year ago.  Shriver was previously the assistant managing editor at The Winchester Star in Virginia since […]

ALM combines life and health insurance coverage on website

ALM, which owns business and legal newspapers and websites, announced Monday that it has combined its life and health insurance coverage and reporting under its ThinkAdvisor brand. The new Life/Health channel under ThinkAdvisor features an e-newsletter and social media community for readers in the life and health insurance industry previously covered by its publications LifeHealthPro, […]

ALM turns National Law Journal into monthly magazine

ALM, which operates legal and business publications around the country, has redesigned its weekly National Law Journal publication into a monthly magazine. The first monthly issue of the 39-year-old publication is April. The National Law Journal’s focus on federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court will be expanded in the monthly magazine, which will also […]

Allentown paper expanding Sunday business section

Robert L. Gentieu, the business and consumer editor at the Allentown Morning Call in Pennsylvania, writes Thursday about the paper’s plans to expand its Sunday business section. Gentieu writes, “So late last year, we launched a new business news website, Lehigh Valley Business Cycle, featuring all things business, including interactive content, exclusive local business news […]