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• BusinessWeek Under Bloomberg: John Byrne Leaving To Start Own Company

  PaidContent - 2009-11-24

  This is a bit of a surprise because we were made to understand that John Byrne had decided to stay, as BusinessWeek is ready to start its life under Bloomberg. Now comes the news that he is leaving. He was the executive editor of the mag and EIC of...

  Tags: BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Mag, Min, Entrepreneurship, Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Management, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Rafat Ali

• Several High-Profile BusinessWeek Staffers Won't Make The Move To Bloomberg

  PaidContent - 2009-11-19

  As Bloomberg prepares to cut 100 jobs when it takes over BusinessWeek next month, some of the staffers being left behind are fairly high profile. The most recent names include senior reporter Stephen Baker, Technology & You columnist Steve Wildstrom, personal finance editor Lauren Young, engagement editor Shirley Brady...

  Tags: BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., TBN, Personal Finance, David Kaplan

• BusinessWeek Under Bloomberg: About 100 Staff To Be Laid Off

  PaidContent - 2009-11-18

  So the cuts and changes will happen anyway, despite whatever the promises were, reminiscent of the Murdoch’s promises to the Bancroft family at the time of the Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) deal. Bloomberg will lay off about 100 staffers from BusinessWeek staff when the deal to buy it from...

  Tags: BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Workforce Management, Human Resources, Jobs & Layoffs, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Rafat Ali

• BusinessWeek Under Bloomberg: ME of Time.com Appointed Mag's New Editor

  PaidContent - 2009-11-17

  BusinessWeek, now under Bloomberg, has made its first senior appointment, and has gone outside the company for it: Josh Tyrangiel would be appointed Editor of the mag after the deal closes, it said. More to come…Josh Tyrangiel To Be BusinessWeek EditorNEW YORK, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/—Bloomberg L.P. today announced that...

  Tags: BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Leadership, Mergers & Acquisitions, Team Management, Corporate Law, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Rafat Ali

• BusinessWeek Under Bloomberg: May Charge For Some Online, Bulk Up Mag

  PaidContent - 2009-11-03

  At an all-hands meeting at BusinessWeek’s offices today, new owner Bloomberg’s chief content officer Norman Pearlstine revealed some of the plans for the mag going ahead, according to Mediaweek, citing a source at the meeting. Among the plans he talked about: “increase the number of pages in the magazine,...

  Tags: BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Media & Publishing, Magazines, Rafat Ali

• Matt Winkler On BusinessWeek Buy And Bloomberg's India Expansion

  PaidContent - 2009-10-30

  Matthew Winkler is the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, and was in India this week related to its expansion in the country and recent tie-up with UTV News. Our ContentSutra editor Sruthijith KK spoke to on the India plans, and also about the company’s recent BusinessWeek acquisition. On rumors about...

  Tags: India, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Matthew Winkler, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Media & Publishing, Rafat Ali

• If Zelnick Did It, BusinessWeek Edition; Keith Fox Out

  PaidContent - 2009-10-30

  So Thomson Reuters’ involvement in the BusinessWeek bid was even deeper than I first reported. Peter Kafka reports, based on a source, about ZelnickMedia’s plans if the PE firm would have been successful at buying the troubled magazine, including closing the print edition, dump all staff and replace with...

  Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., McGraw-Hill Companies, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Rafat Ali

• Earnings: McGraw Hill Expects Slight Gain From BusinessWeek Sale In Q4

  PaidContent - 2009-10-26

  McGraw Hill expects a $0.02 per share gain when the sale of BusinessWeek closes in Q4, the company said in its Q3 earnings report. That increase amounts to $9.3 million before taxes and $5.9 million after taxes from Bloomberg taking the publication off its hands. Earlier this month, Bloomberg’s...

  Tags: BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Earnings, McGraw-Hill Companies, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, David Kaplan

• The Bloomberg-BusinessWeek Deal's First Casualty? EIC Stephen J. Adler

  PaidContent - 2009-10-21

  BusinessWeek‘s editor-in-chief Stephen J. Adler gave his formal resignation today—telling staffers that he’ll leave the post upon completion of the sale to Bloomberg, BW reports. The deal is expected to close in early December. Adler spent more than four years in the top spot; during his tenure, he oversaw...

  Tags: BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Workforce Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Human Resources, Industry Moves, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Tameka Kee

• Bloomberg's Acquisition of BusinessWeek Is Mostly Good News

  BNET - 2009-10-15

  I'm sure some long-time BusinessWeek employees would disagree with me, but it's really good news for the magazine the media property that it got bought by Bloomberg, instead of some of the other suitors out there. There are two reasons why: Bloomberg is a much better fit...

  Tags: Acquisition, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., BW, Branding, Marketing, Catharine P. Taylor