Bloomberg, Vanity Fair win business journalism awards from Silurians

A Bloomberg series on how Wall Street is addressing technological and strategic changes to its business has won the business and financial news category at the Silurians’ annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. Here are the buisness journalism winners: NEWSPAPER, WIRE SERVICE AND ONLINE Medallion: Bloomberg News for “The New Wall Street” by Hugh Son, Matt Leising and Annie […]

Panama Papers wins Malcolm Forbes Award

The Panama Papers stories have won the Overseas Press Club’s Malcolm Forbes Award, given to the best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or digital. The stories were written by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald and more than 100 other media partners. The judges wrote, “More than 400 […]

Bloomberg Businessweek’s Grobart hired as executive editor of CNN Tech

Sam Grobart has been hired as the new executive editor of CNN Tech based in New York. Grobart joins CNN from Bloomberg Businessweek where he was a writer and managing editor of Bloomberg’s digital video team. Prior to that, Grobart was the personal technology editor and assistant technology editor at The New York Times. He […]

Biz magazines among Ellie finalists

The American Society of Magazine Editors released the list of finalists for the 2017 National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital Media. Here are the business magazines that are finalists: Bloomberg Businessweek — general excellence in the news, sports and entertainment category. Wired — leisure interests for “What to Eat Today,” August. Bloomberg Businessweek — website. […]

Politico hires Bloomberg Businessweek senior editor Hoffman

Politico top editors Carrie Budoff Brown, Paul Volpe and Karey Van Hall sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Hi all — We’re thrilled to announce that Allison Hoffman, a senior editor for Bloomberg Businessweek, will be our new national editor directing coverage of the new Trump administration, from the West Wing to Foggy Bottom, K Street, […]

Poets & Quants and the growth of biz school coverage

John Byrne, the editor in chief of business school news site Poets & Quants, has the distinction of creating the first business school ranking back in 1988 for Businessweek. Business school rankings have since become a cottage industry for business news media, with lists being pumped out on a regular basis by Forbes, U.S. News, […]

Patterson, editor of editorial page at Business Week, dies at 91

Jack Eugene Patterson, who served Business Week magazine as its Atlanta bureau chief and later the editor of its editorial page, died Monday at the age of  91 in Maine. Patterson joined the McGraw-Hill publication in 1955 and stayed until his retirement in 1987. He continued to write for the magazine after retirement, primarily penning book […]

Remembering Jack Patterson, longtime Businessweek staffer

Steve Shepard, who was editor in chief of Businessweek from 1984 to 2005, wrote the following for Talking Biz News following the death of Jack Patterson, a former Businessweek reporter and editor, this week at the age of 91: When I first came to BW as a cub in 1966, Jack Patterson sat in the office […]

Bloomberg Businessweek publisher Bosso is out

Bloomberg Businessweek publisher Michelle Bosso left the magazine last week during the purge of its top editorial staffers, reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post. Kelly writes, “That makes it a clean sweep since BBW veteran Ellen Pollock, who held the editor-in-chief job for the past year, was also given the old heave-ho and replaced by […]

Bloomberg EIC Micklethwait explains layoffs, reorg

Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait sent out the following to its editorial and research staff on Thursday: To All in Bloomberg Editorial & Research, Today has been a tough day for the newsroom. No editor likes to say farewell to good journalists, but these are necessary changes that fit into the long-term strategy that we laid […]