Since we didn’t get early access, but WSJ did and wrote two long stories on it, we can only make it easier for you to digest those. Hence the cheat sheet: —Michael Bloomberg was keen on buying BusinessWeek, after Bloomberg News broke the story about BW hiring Evercore as its…

Courtesy the exclusive they gave to WSJ tonight. Wonder why they didn’t give it to us…hmm. Here is a teaser cover from this week’s BW.

...With an earnest young editor, too polished for his own good. Except this isn’t a sketch, it is real. BusinessWeek under Bloomberg, brilliantly dubbed Bloomberg BusinessWeek, is relaunching the magazine on Apr 23rd, and it has released a preview as a series of short videos from its new-ish editor-in-chief Josh…

About 25 staffers were let go from Bloomberg BusinessWeek as the title prepares for its major redesign late next month. Among the 25 who were cut were senior reporters Tom Lowry and Michelle Conlin, FishbowlNY reported. The layoffs were attributed to “redundancies,” a Bloomberg rep told Mediaweek. Separate from the…

Paul Bascobert is the new president of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, succeeding Keth Fox, who is staying at McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP). Bloomberg execs have high hopes for Bascobert, who has been the CMO for the Consumer Medis Group at Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) and, the announcement claims, “is credited with helping the…

The integration of Bloomberg BusinessWeek is complete, as the first print issue bearing Bloomberg’s name is hitting the newsstands now, four days after the deal formally closed. On the mag front cover, the Bloomberg logo is so small, you could almost miss it (and in the online image of the…

Yes, it’s a bit over the top to compare buying a magazine with matters of war but getting the word that Bloomberg’s acquisition of BusinessWeek is official today reminded me of an interview I just heard about President Obama and Afghanistan. Until now, he’s been managing the results of someone…

This is a bit of a surprise because we were made to understand that John Byrne had decided to stay, as BusinessWeek is ready to start its life under Bloomberg. Now comes the news that he is leaving. He was the executive editor of the mag and EIC of the…

So the cuts and changes will happen anyway, despite whatever the promises were, reminiscent of the Murdoch’s promises to the Bancroft family at the time of the Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) deal. Bloomberg will lay off about 100 staffers from BusinessWeek staff when the deal to buy it from McGraw-Hill…

BusinessWeek, now under Bloomberg, has made its first senior appointment, and has gone outside the company for it: Josh Tyrangiel would be appointed Editor of the mag after the deal closes, it said. Tyrangiel, 37, currently is deputy managing editor of Time magazine and managing editor of Time.com; he recently…

At an all-hands meeting at BusinessWeek’s offices today, new owner Bloomberg’s chief content officer Norman Pearlstine revealed some of the plans for the mag going ahead, according to Mediaweek, citing a source at the meeting. Among the plans he talked about: “increase the number of pages in the magazine, upgrade…

Last Friday Peter Kafka over at MediaMemo reported some details - and we picked it up—of ZelnickMedia’s bid for BusinessWeek, and if it was successful, it was supposedly planning to shut the print mag and gut the place down with content being fed in, to a large extent, by bid…

Matthew Winkler is the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. Our ContentSutra editor Sruthijith KK spoke to him by phone this week on the company’s expansive India plans, and also about the company’s recent BusinessWeek acquisition. On rumors about him stepping back: “I can assure you that I’m not stepping back. As…

So Thomson Reuters’ involvement in the BusinessWeek bid was even deeper than I first reported. Peter Kafka reports, based on a source, about ZelnickMedia’s plans if the PE firm would have been successful at buying the troubled magazine, including closing the print edition, dumping all staff and replacing with Reuters…

BusinessWeek‘s editor-in-chief Stephen J. Adler gave his formal resignation today—telling staffers that he’ll leave the post upon completion of the sale to Bloomberg, BW reports. The deal is expected to close in early December. Adler spent more than four years in the top spot; during his tenure, he oversaw the…

Last October, Bloomberg Chief Content Officer Norm Pearlstine told our Future of Business Media conference that the company was willing to look at acquisitions but, in the immediate future, wouldn’t be making “the major kind of acquisition that gets written about.” No, that took a year and it’s one that…

The BusinessWeek sales process has had plenty of turns over the last three months. Highlights of our coverage, in reverse chronological order: —Bloomberg Wins BusinessWeek; Pearlstine Will Be Chairman —Rewind: BusinessWeek.com And Bloomberg.com Combined: Not Exactly Burning The Charts —Thomson Reuters Working As Partner With Zelnick Consortium On BusinessWeek Bid…

Rewind: I published this last week on the combined Bloomberg.com and BusinessWeek.com. Worth a second look as Bloomberg wins the bidding. Oct 8: So whether BusinessWeek goes to Bloomberg, or the ZelnickMedia consortium (with Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) behind it), none of them will be huge online. We have been…

Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) has publicly been saying that it has no interest in bidding for BusinessWeek, ever since the news that it was on the block came out. And that was true, until Bloomberg and later ZelnickMedia came into the picture: the multimedia business media giant is working as…