Bloomberg Businessweek preparing iPhone app

Bloomberg is set to launch an iPhone app for Bloomberg Businessweek within the next few weeks as it looks to expand its global reach, reports Lucy Tesseras of New Media Age. Tesseras writes, “New media age has seen a sneak preview of the new app, which mirrors the look and functionality of the Bloomberg Businessweek […]

Businessweek.com launches redesign

Lucia Moses of Adweek writes about the redesign of Bloomberg Businessweek.com, which she says has more dominate photos on the home page, and there are bright color-coded section tabs. Moses writes, “In terms of the content, there will be more analysis and offbeat stories, like a recent article on an odd new combination tablet-smartphone with […]

Is the latest Businessweek cover smart of sophomoric?

Former BusinessWeek chief of correspondents Joe Weber, now a University of Nebraska journalism professor, writes about the latest cover of Bloomberg Businessweek, which features two airplanes apparently fornicating, by asking his students what they thought about it. Weber writes, “Another concurred, adding a thought about the cover language. ‘If the title was about a merger, […]

Inside the design process at Bloomberg Businessweek

Adam Clark Estes of The Atlantic talked to Bloomberg Businessweek creative director Richard Turley about how the magazine’s cover is designed each week. Here is an excerpt: Let’s be honest. Bloomberg Businessweek‘s gotten suprisingly edgy lately. What’s up with that? It’s funny because I don’t think we are. Everyone takes covers, interprets covers in a […]

Jack and Suzy Welch to write column for Reuters, Fortune

Jack and Suzy Welch, who previously wrote a management column for BusinessWeek, will now write a column for Reuters. Jack Welch is the former CEO of General Electric, and Suzy Welch is the former editor of the Harvard Business Review. At Reuters, they will be reunited with editor in chief Stephen Adler, who ran BusinessWeek […]

Reuters hires Grover from Bloomberg Businessweek

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Ronald Grover, the longtime Los Angeles media reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek, has resigned to accept a position with Reuters. Grover will become the Los Angeles bureau chief for Reuters. The change will be announced as soon as later Friday. While Reuters has been hiring a number of big-name business journalists in […]

Biz magazine ad revenue in 2011 outpaces rest of industry

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 13 business magazines reported ad revenue of $1.24 billion in 2011, up 6.2 percent from the previous year, far outpacing the slight increase for the entire magazine industry, according to data released by the Publishers Information Bureau and analyzed by Talking Biz News. Ad pages also rose 1.4 percent to […]

How writing books helps a business journalist develop his craft

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Paul Barrett is an assistant managing editor and senior feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, a position he assumed in September 2005. He is responsible for writing cover articles on subjects that range from the energy industry to the gun business. Prior to joining Bloomberg Businessweek, Barrett was an editor and legal […]

Former BusinessWeek chief economist Wolman dies

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE William “Bill” Wolman, a long time chief economist at BusinessWeek magazine, and a frequent commentator on CNBC, died earlier this month, according to former BusinessWeek staffers. In his career, Wolman received a number of awards. The magazine’s 1980 “Reindustrialization of America” special issue garnered Wolman a National Magazine Award for best […]

Two biz magazine covers among the 10 best of the year

Advertising Age picked the top 10 best magazine covers of the year, and a cover from Bloomberg Businessweek and a cover from The Economist made the list. For the Bloomberg Businessweek cover, Advertising Age wrote, “Ousting Muammar Gaddafi gave the West’s oil companies new openings in Libya, but the country would need stability before anyone […]