This is not your father’s biz magazine
Here is the cover — both versions — of this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek: The man is going to the Western region and the female to the Eastern.
Bloomberg Businessweek and its boy wonder editor
Zeke Turner of Women’s Wear Daily writes Wednesday about the changes that have been made at Bloomberg Businessweek under its “boy wonder” editor Josh Tyrangiel. Turner writes, “Several members of Tyrangiel’s staff at Bloomberg describe him as a man who never raises his voice; never berates anybody, even when it’s deserved, and never makes people […]
Ex-BusinessWeek editor named Reuters editor in chief
Thomson Reuters chief executive officer Tom Glocer sent out the following announcement to the staff on Monday: I am pleased to announce the appointment of Stephen Adler as Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News and Executive Vice President-News, Thomson Reuters, effective today. He will oversee the entire company’s news strategy and operations. Steve succeeds David Schlesinger, who after […]
Bloomberg Businessweek names new executive editor
Bloomberg Businessweek announced Friday that Brad Wieners will be joining the magazine as executive editor. Wieners will report to editor Josh Tyrangiel and joins deputy editor Eric Pooley, executive editor Ellen Pollock, and managing editor Kristin Powers on the magazine’s senior management team. Wieners joins Bloomberg Businessweek following five years at Men’s Journal, where he […]
Business magazines garner multiple awards
Folio:’s Eddie and Ozzie awards were handed out Monday, and business magazines took home some of the hardware. The awards recognize achievement in magazine editorial and design. Here are the business magazine winners: — Inc. magazine’s December 2009 cover won the silver award for best cover of a business-to-business magazine with more than 100,000 circulation. […]
Bloomberg Businessweek to offer BGOV insert
Katy Bachman of Mediaweek writes that the upcoming issues of Bloomberg Businessweek will feature a special insert of content from BGOV, Bloomberg’s new service that covers the intersection between business and government. Bachman writes, “Starting Friday, BGOV will take aim at a wider audience as a quarterly editorial insert in Bloomberg Businessweek. The Jan. 24-30 […]
Biz magazine ad revenue up nearly 10 in 2010, outperforming industry
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 13 business magazines reported ad revenue of $1.17 billion in 2010, up 9.6 percent from the previous year, far outpacing the 3.1 percent increase for the entire magazine industry, according to data released Monday by the Publishers Information Bureau and analyzed by Talking Biz News. Ad pages also rose 7.2 […]
Bloomberg reporter leaving for Inc.
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Burt Helm, former ad and marketing writer for BusinessWeek, is leaving the Bloomberg News wire for Inc. magazine as a senior writer. Helm was one of the BusinessWeek staffers that was moved over to Bloomberg when its parent company bought the magazine. Once at the wire, he was reassigned to cover restaurant […]
Bloomberg Businessweek hires two staffers
Bloomberg Businessweek announced Tuesday that Ashlee Vance, former New York Times enterprise technology writer, and Brendan Greeley, former technology and policy correspondent at The Economist, have joined the magazine as staff writers. “Ashlee and Brendan are incredibly talented reporters with deep knowledge of their industries,” said editor Josh Tyrangiel in a statement. “I’m thrilled to have […]
Tyrangiel talks Businessweek on Rose
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel was on the Charlie Rose show on Monday night talking about the magazine. Here is an excerpt: “So a lot of what happened when I got job at Bloomberg Businessweek, I just emphasized we’ve got to fight for our space every day. Every day you have to convince people why […]
