Comments on: Bloomberg BusinessWeek Cuts 25; Moves A Dozen To The Wire Service http://paidcontent.org/2010/03/12/419-bloomberg-businessweek-cuts-25-moves-a-dozen-to-the-wire-service/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: oldschoolbw http://paidcontent.org/2010/03/12/419-bloomberg-businessweek-cuts-25-moves-a-dozen-to-the-wire-service/#comment-77446 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:06:47 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/03/12/419-bloomberg-businessweek-cuts-25-moves-a-dozen-to-the-wire-service/#comment-77446 @Wall Flower: AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Please tell me you are being sarcastic.

]]> By: Wall Flower http://paidcontent.org/2010/03/12/419-bloomberg-businessweek-cuts-25-moves-a-dozen-to-the-wire-service/#comment-77445 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:39:50 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/03/12/419-bloomberg-businessweek-cuts-25-moves-a-dozen-to-the-wire-service/#comment-77445 BW really needs to look to their Web operation if the outfit is to have a future.

Online honcho Martin Keohan is probably the smartest guy in the whole building. If he was involved in deciding who stays and who goes, then there is hope.

]]> By: An Insider http://paidcontent.org/2010/03/12/419-bloomberg-businessweek-cuts-25-moves-a-dozen-to-the-wire-service/#comment-77444 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:36:30 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/03/12/419-bloomberg-businessweek-cuts-25-moves-a-dozen-to-the-wire-service/#comment-77444 “…The layoffs were attributed to “redundancies,” a Bloomberg rep told Mediaweek……”

Redundancies? They fired the entire Photo, Art and Graphics departments!!! Including support people and administrative assistants! They’re not moving anybody downtown from the Bloomberg building to fill these positions…they’re simply getting rid of ANYONE with a link to the McGraw Hill magazine! And it’s not all cost-cutting either…the new Director of Photography is going to be pulling down a quarter of a million bucks and the posh Art Director they had to go all the way to England to find will cost one Hell of a lot more than that!!! No…the want to ‘sex up’ BusinessWeek just like Conde Nast thought they could with Portfolio and to do that they think they have to trash the previous staff…period! And what happened to Portfolio? Oh yeah!!!

And given how they treated the fired employees today…killing their email, internet and phone service ten minutes after they were told they were let go…they should be ashamed of themselves. This was a staff of people who had, in a lot of cases, spent their entire professional lives at BusinessWeek and they are being treated like criminals, or the enemy, take your pick!

Way to go, Bloomberg…job well done!!!

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