Tyrangiel leaving Bloomberg, Businessweek
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel sent out the following announcement to the staff: Friends, Tomorrow will be my last day at Bloomberg. I’ve spent six years working with some of the smartest and most creative people in journalism, and it’s time for me to take my chips off the table, reflect on my criminal good […]
Bloomberg Media remains No. 1 in video, prepares Bloomberg Business Asia edition
Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith sent out the following note to the staff on Thursday: Dear Colleagues, Despite logistical challenges as we undergo construction on our main set in New York, the global Bloomberg TV team rose to the occasion and delivered insightful reporting on the market meltdown over the past few weeks. We harnessed […]
Bloomberg Media CEO: We’re clicking on all cylinders
Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith sent the following to the global media staff on Wednesday: Dear Colleagues, Congratulations to many teams across Media, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Digital, Bloomberg LIVE, Bloomberg West, and Bloomberg Radio on collaboration across “What Is Code?”. What we built together around Code clearly demonstrated our multi-platform power and potential–taking a […]
Bloomberg Businessweek’s code issue was a massive hit
The Bloomberg Businessweek special issue on coding has sold more copies than any other issue to date this year, reports Gabriel Arana of The Huffington Post. Arana writes, “The online response, though, has dwarfed the reception in print. The digital package is accompanied by supplementary multimedia and interactive elements — a retro-looking avatar guides readers […]
The rift that exists at Bloomberg
Luke O’Brien of Politico magazine examines the task facing Mike Bloomberg as he tries to reinvigorate his company. O’Brien writes, “But within the black box of the company, a bigger rift emerged between Winkler’s newswire juggernaut and Bloomberg Media, the consumer media division led by Tyrangiel, who was supposed to help bring fresh life to […]
Bloomberg Businessweek releases code issue
Bloomberg Businessweek released Thursday The Code Issue, a special double issue containing a single essay by writer and programmer Paul Ford. Recognizing that the world now belongs to people who code, and those who don’t understand it will be left behind, the issue is devoted to demystifying code and the culture of the people who […]
Reuters, Bloomberg Businessweek win Overseas Press Club awards
Stephen Grey and a team at Reuters have won the Malcolm Forbes Award from the Overseas Press Club. The award honors the best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or online. Grey and his team’s series was “Comrade Capitalism,” which examined how Russia does business in the Putin era. Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook […]
Brady leaves Bloomberg Businessweek
Diane Brady, a senior editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, has left the magazine. Her last day was on Friday. On her Facebook page, Brady said she was joining a new media venture. Brady had been with the magazine since February 1999 and was one of the few that stayed with it after it was acquired by […]
Bloomberg launches new website
Josh Topolsky, editor of Bloomberg Digital, writes about the launch of the new website Bloomberg Business: Bloomberg Business fuses the best of Bloomberg News, Businessweek, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Graphics, and new digital content into a single destination dedicated to one thing: delivering the news you need at the right time, in the right place, and […]
Bloomberg Business goes live next week
Josh Topolsky of Bloomberg writes about the upcoming launch of its new website, Bloomberg Business, which will go live on Jan. 20. Topolsky writes, “The project is called Bloomberg Business, and it is a fusion of the best of what Bloomberg News, Businessweek, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Graphics, and our new digital editorial groups can create. […]
