How Quartz sets the agenda every morning
Mădălina Ciobanu of Journalism.co.uk spoke with Quartz ideas editor Paul Smalera about this job. Here is an excerpt: What do you most look forward to at the start of your day? What’s unique about Quartz is we really are a 24/7 global operation. I never have to wake up with the feeling of having to […]
Style drift in business journalism
Seen any style drift lately? Yes you have. And you’re likely to see more. Style drift? It’s the term that applies when a business news service covers a story that isn’t really business news. Remember that white dress/blue dress debate? All the biz majors – text, digital, and TV — were on top of that […]
TheStreet CEO DeMarse talks about results
Here are comments made by TheStreet.com CEO Elisabeth DeMarse about its second-quarter earnings: In the first half of 2015, we significantly grew our free organic traffic 85% using search engine optimization, and we also grew our social traffic by 200%. As for mobile, we relaunched our mobile user experience with responsive design, and our mobile […]
Bloomberg website doubles traffic in a year
Bloomberg.com grew 102 percent year-over-year with 23.6 million unique visitors in June, remaining ahead of WSJ.com, CNNMoney.com, CNBC.com and others. Inaddition, Bloomberg Media posted another record video traffic month in June, reaching 16.5 million unique viewers worldwide and maintaining the No. 1 position in comScore’s Business and Finance category for the second month in a […]
Bloomberg homepage gets more headlines, smaller photos
Jed Sandberg, Michael Shane and Paul Maya of Bloomberg’s web operation sent the below note this morning to the Bloomberg staff: Folks, Later today we’re rolling out some updates to the Bloomberg.com homepage. The visual impact of our current site is distinctive and dramatic, but the update should help us solve some challenges we’ve had […]
Bloomberg launching new homepage, new story software
Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait sent out the following message on Tuesday morning: To All in Bloomberg Editorial & Research, This week we launch a new version of our homepage. One of the main ideas behind the redesign is to increase the density of stories — so anybody who comes to the site can […]
The business news cycles that keep a media mogul awake
If you’re a news mogul, you need to keep an eye on turf fights, especially among your platforms. Why? Well, TV producers want people watching TV all the time. Web folks want people clicking all the time. Radio and podcasters want people listening all the time. So the platforms compete. It’s noticeable in news media […]
How PoetsandQuants.com has changed business school coverage
John Byrne of the founder of C-Change Media, which five years ago this week launched PoetsandQuants.com, a website about MBA programs and the first of four from the company. Before starting his own company, Byrne was executive editor and editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek.com. He was responsible for the editorial operations of BusinessWeek.com. Byrne had rejoined the […]
CNBC seeks digital video producer in San Francisco
The digital video producer will be responsible for producing unique video content for CNBC’s digital platforms. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of developing digital native video franchises. Demonstrated ability to prototype video concepts and franchises under tight deadlines. This person will execute all aspects of digital video production including: story concepts […]
Can Business Insider be successful?
Michael Wolff of USA Today writes about Business Insider and whether it can achieve long-term success. Wolff writes, “Again and again, Business Insider has framed the most basic question about how to make a digital publishing business supported by advertising work — without coming up with an answer. “It began as Silicon Alley Insider, founded […]
