Chafkin tapped as Bloomberg Businessweek features editor
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg’s Brad Stone sent out the following announcement on Monday: Colleagues, Since joining Bloomberg in 2015, few writers have been more prolific in the pages of Businessweek than Max Chafkin. Whether he’s spending time in subterranean muck with Elon Musk, transforming into an Instagram influencer, or collaborating with colleagues […]
Bloomberg Businessweek, Reuters win OPC awards for business reporting
Bloomberg Businessweek and Reuters have won awards from the Overseas Press Club for their business journalism. The Malcolm Forbes Award for best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or digital went to the Reuters staff of Paritosh Bansai, Tom Lassiter, Aditya Kaira, Duff Wilson and team for “The Phillip Morris Files.” The judges […]
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Murphy steps down, replaced by Weber
Megan Murphy, who became Bloomberg Businessweek editor about 14 months ago, is leaving the publication and Bloomberg to spend more time with her family. On Twitter, Murphy wrote, “I am so proud of all this team has accomplished. I am so grateful they let me go along for the ride as we relaunched the magazine […]
The story behind Bloomberg Businessweek’s cartoon strip
Bloomberg Businessweek published a cartoon story earlier this week about Kubernetes, an open-sourced cloud application from Google. We asked Dimitra Kessenides, a news editor who oversees Businessweek’s special Focus On section, to explain how it came about. Here is what she said: Where’d the idea come from? We publish special sections covering the cloud a […]
Barrett leaves Bloomberg Businessweek for NYU
Paul Barrett, the special projects editor and a feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, has left the magazine. Barrett is now the deputy director at New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. He worked at Bloomberg for the last 12 years. He was also assistant managing editor for investigative projects at the magazine […]
Bloomberg Businessweek launches Mexico edition
El Financiero and Bloomberg L.P. announced Thursday the launch of Bloomberg Businessweek México, a Spanish-language, bi-weekly edition. The magazine will include local content from Mexico-based Bloomberg News and El Financiero journalists. The first seven issues of Bloomberg Businessweek México will be included with the El Financiero newspaper at no additional cost. The magazine will be […]
What’s behind the overhaul at Bloomberg Businessweek
Megan Murphy took over as editor of Bloomberg Businessweek in November with a mandate — overhaul the magazine to make it more appealing to readers. Last month, the redesigned magazine was unveiled. It included sharper storytelling, cleaner and more consistent design, and richer graphics and photography. Murphy was formerly the Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg. She had […]
Economist, Money, Bloomberg Businessweek among Loeb winners
The Economist, Money magazine and Bloomberg Businessweek were among the winners at the Gerald Loeb Awards dinner in New York on Tuesday evening. The Wall Street Journal did not win any Loebs after winning five in 2016. It was a finalist in two categories. John Peet, Jeremy Cliffe, and Tom Wainwright of The Economist won in […]
Bloomberg Businessweek is going behind a paywall
Bloomberg Businessweek is going behind a paywall as the financial news and information company looks to shift the magazine’s main source of support from its advertisers to its readers, reports Shannon Bond of The Financial Times. Bond writes, “Businessweek’s paywall will consist of two tiers. For $50-$60 a year, subscribers will get access to its website, the […]
Bloomberg Businessweek rolls out overhaul
Megan Murphy, the editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, writes in the latest issue about changes to the magazine. Murphy writes, “You’ll see this reflected in this week’s magazine, with its sharper storytelling, cleaner and more consistent design, and richer graphics and photography. The new Bloomberg Businessweek is more global, with American, European, and Asian editions. We’ve […]
