Categories: OLD Media Moves

Bloomberg View to relaunch as standalone site

Bloomberg View, which was created by Bloomberg L.P. in 2011 as a complement to the company’s news products, is set to relaunch this morning. with a slick, mobile-friendly layout and its own URL, reports Joe Pompeo of Capital New York.

Pompeo writes, “That makes it only the second property in the Bloomberg empire to have a standalone site. The other is Bloomberg Businessweek, the company’s marquee glossy, which was acquired in 2009 and therefore already had its own website. Until now, Bloomberg View was a vertical on bloomberg.com, which also is home to brands like Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg Pursuits and Bloomberg TV.

“The re-boot reflects an evolving consumer strategy at a company that makes most of its money from the sale of high-priced financial-data terminals. Bloomberg Media Group, under the leadership of former Atlantic Media executive Justin B. Smith, is also reviewing its print magazines and cable-news channel, which is the loss leader, followed by Businessweek, according to sources.

“The finances of View, which is seen as a pet project of Bloomberg L.P. founder and majority shareholder (and former New York Mayor) Michael Bloomberg, are unclear. But the site, which has a full-time staff of roughly two-dozen, offers lucrative salaries and contributor contracts.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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