MarketWatch.com tweaks home page
Jeremy Olshan, the editor of MarketWatch.com, announced Friday some minor changes to its home page, which was redesigned last month. Olshan writes, “As I said last month, this was only a first step. In response to your excellent feedback, we are happy to announce three changes to the design that should make the site much […]
Smith: Bloomberg.com passed WSJ.com in February
Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith sent out the following email to the staff on Tuesday with the introduction of the redesigned Bloomberg.com: Dear Colleagues, One of Bloomberg Media’s goals last year was to expand our audience beyond core finance professionals to reach the broader global business community. We introduced new products and brands and launched […]
TheStreet to launch new version of website
Interim chief executive officer Larry Kramer spoke on the TheStreet.com’s fourth-quarter earnings call about the financial news site’s performance. Here are some excerpts: We’ve focused on growing our audience and producing more valuable content for our users and those efforts have paid off with rapidly growing page views and audience. Since arriving at TheStreet four months ago, […]
Behind the redesigned Bloomberg Markets
Joel Weber, the editor of the redesigned Bloomberg Markets magazine, talks about its changes. Here is an excerpt: Q: Bloomberg Markets’ new issue has a very different look and feel – matte, minimal, elegant. What else is distinctive? A: We’re unique in that we go to Bloomberg Terminal customers – I can’t think of any […]
MarketWatch.com readies redesigned site
Jeremy Olshan, the editor in chief at MarketWatch.com, writes about its upcoming redesigned website. Olshan writes, “One complaint we heard from readers was that the front page lacked clear organization. So the new site features a top section of what our editors deem the most important and interesting stories of the moment, followed by our […]
Coloradoan adds standalone biz section
The Fort Collins Coloradoan, a Gannett paper, has added a standalone business news section five days a week. Executive editor Lauren Gustus tells Talking Biz News: We conducted a reader survey and found a desire for more business news was second only to a desire for more local/community news. This was a primary driver as we […]
Harvard Biz Review adapts to the digital age
Jon Chesto of the Boston Globe writes about the changes at the Harvard Business Review. Chesto writes, “Ignatius and Macht oversaw a big website redesign in November 2014, in part to make it easier to read on people’s phones and to make it easier for readers to save and organize articles. Since that time, HBR […]
Consumer Reports to add bylines in magazine
Consumer Reports president Marta Tellado sent out the following announcement earlier this week: Dear Colleagues, I am excited to share with you a number of important changes and updates for our content and communications teams. Let’s start with staff news: Jennifer Shecter has been promoted to Director, Content Impact & Corporate Outreach. In her new […]
WSJ overhauls how its news operations work
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Gerard Baker sent out the following announcement to the staff on Wednesday: In the past few years we have made great progress in equipping our newsroom for the challenges of the digital age and in integrating and streamlining our editing resources to ensure we continue to publish, hour by […]
Fast Company’s new site allows for module changes
Fast Company magazine has launched a redesigned website that allows its editors to change the modules on the home page, giving the magazine more flexibility in what it showcases to its readers. The current home page, for example, features five featured stories, as well as short news stories currently called “The Latest” but will likely […]
