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Why Bloomberg is moving into consulting

Hannah Murphy, Andrew Hill and Shannon Bond of the Financial Times write about why Bloomberg Media is getting into the consulting business.

Murphy, Hill and Bond write, “A new service launched this month, aimed at competing with management consultants and media agencies, already has five clients.

“The idea is that Bloomberg will use data from across its assets — including the eponymous terminals, its news service and specialist publisher Bloomberg New Energy Finance — to inform its advisory services.

“Services will include brand consulting, corporate communications and marketing strategy advice, among others.

“‘Our insights and our knowledge of the target audience that we service, business and financial decision makers, is unparalleled,’ Justin Smith, chief executive of Bloomberg Media, told the Financial Times. ‘The strategy we are implementing now is an attempt to find a new model of media.’

“The announcement comes as the company’s media arm seeks to diversify its revenues in the face of the growing challenge from the digital advertising duopoly of Google and Facebook, alongside an erosion of print advertising.”

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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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