Henry Blodget of Business Insider has opened up about his site’s growth and other metrics, but for someone who is promoting transparency, he hasn’t told us the most important things we need to know in order to tell whether BI is successful or not. Read more »
We’ve peeked in from time to time at the New York City Economic Development Corp.’s efforts to jump start the city’s struggling media indust… Read more »
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 th… Read more »
…With an earnest young editor, too polished for his own good. Except this isn’t a sketch, it is real. BusinessWeek under Bloomberg, brilli… Read more »
About 25 staffers were let go from Bloomberg BusinessWeek as the title prepares for its major redesign late next month. Among the 25 who wer… Read more »
Paul Bascobert is the new president of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, succeeding Keth Fox, who is staying at McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP). Bloomberg exe… Read more »
The integration of Bloomberg BusinessWeek is complete, as the first print issue bearing Bloomberg’s name is hitting the newsstands now, four… Read more »
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 BusinessW… Read more »
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 li… Read more »
So the cuts and changes will happen anyway, despite whatever the promises were, reminiscent of the Murdoch’s promises to the Bancroft family… Read more »
BusinessWeek, now under Bloomberg, has made its first senior appointment, and has gone outside the company for it: Josh Tyrangiel would be a… Read more »
Last Friday Peter Kafka over at MediaMemo reported some details – and we picked it up — of ZelnickMedia’s bid for BusinessWeek, and if it w… Read more »
Matthew Winkler is the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. Our ContentSutra editor Sruthijith KK spoke to him by phone this week on the compa… Read more »
So Thomson Reuters’ involvement in the BusinessWeek bid was even deeper than I first reported. Peter Kafka reports, based on a source, about… Read more »
BusinessWeek’s editor-in-chief Stephen J. Adler gave his formal resignation today — telling staffers that he’ll leave the post upon complet… Read more »
Last October, Bloomberg Chief Content Officer Norm Pearlstine told our Future of Business Media conference that the company was willing to l… Read more »
The BusinessWeek sales process has had plenty of turns over the last three months. Highlights of our coverage, in reverse chronological orde… Read more »
Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) has publicly been saying that it has no interest in bidding for BusinessWeek, ever since the news that it was o… Read more »
So the BusinessWeek slaughter-fest continues. The PE firm OpenGate, which has its own set of troubles trying to save TV Guide magazine, has… Read more »
The revised bids to acquire BusinessWeek from McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) are in and Bloomberg appears to be in the lead, according to pieces fr… Read more »
Updated: BusinessWeek is reporting that former WSJ publisher and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) exec Gordon Crovitz is “teaming” with ZelnickMedia in… Read more »
The deadline passed last Tuesday but the few days grace granted to potential BusinessWeek buyer Bloomberg LP may have paid off. Citing execs… Read more »
So what went wrong with BusinessWeek to land it in such troubled waters? Bruce Nussbaum, contributing editor to BW through his blog Nussbaum… Read more »
So someone finally comes out with the news that Bruce Wasserstein has dropped out of his bid for BusinessWeek, more than a month after I rep… Read more »
I am not sure why employees thought otherwise, but BusinessWeek is pitching to its prospective buyers that it is planning to fire about 20 p… Read more »
BusinessWeek’s efforts to reinvent itself in the internet age hasn’t come cheap. On the eve of McGraw-Hill’s Sept. 15 bid deadline for the b… Read more »
We were told early on that Bloomberg LP was not a likely bidder for BusinessWeek but that attitude appears to have changed. The New York Pos… Read more »
As observers debate whether the sale of BusinessWeek will fetch more than $1, McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) Chairman and CEO Terry McGraw is claim… Read more »
The bidding for McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) owned BusinessWeek is entering final stages, and bids are due by Sep 15, reports BW’s own Jon Fine.… Read more »
There are potential bidders, and then there are hopes that there may be potential bidders. And that is a key difference that will determine… Read more »
Ever since the news of BusinessWeek hiring a banker to explore sale options came out earlier this week, everyone’s been weighing in on how t… Read more »
The official word is out from MGH, in a carefully worded release: “The McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) Companies today announced that it is explorin… Read more »
We mentioned earlier this month about BusinessWeek’s site relaunch: it is live today, and starts with adding a lot more gray into the design… Read more »
BusinessWeek is launching–hold on, this will shock you–topic pages, and NYT devotes one full story on the launch of it. Its topic pages, c… Read more »
Most magazines have adopted some form of online community aspect by this point. But John Byrne, BusinessWeek Online editor-in-chief, feels m… Read more »