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- Goodbye McGraw-Hill, Hello Bloomberg
- Gary Weiss submits: Yesterday was the last day BusinessWeek will be within the corporate grasp of "Mother McGraw," as McGraw-Hill MHP is known to its older employees. At midnight, eighty years of M-H control came to an end, and the magazine becomes part of Bloomberg L.P., the staff intact...
- External links 2009-12-01
- A Media Death Watch
- Gary Weiss submits: Jeff Bercovici has a provocative post today at Daily Finance suggesting that a bunch of well-known media titles, from Monster.com to BusinessWeek, are destined for that great copy desk in the sky.Apparently BW was the favorite of the "brain trust" that he assembled: by Gary Weiss
- External links 2009-08-05
- Good News for BusinessWeek
- Gary Weiss submits: So the BusinessWeek "sale watch" continues, with virtually no interest at all from the media for some reason, except for BW's own Jon Fine. He has the latest tidings, which actually are quite good.Jon reports that Joe Mansueto "has expressed interest in pursuing a deal for...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Sobering Tidings from BusinessWeek
- Gary Weiss submits: The good news is that Jon Fine is doing a smashing job covering the pending sale of BusinessWeek, unlike a lot of news organizations that are reluctant to cover themselves. The bad news is that his latest news, out yesterday, is pretty discouraging.The good news is...
- External links 2009-07-31
- Close BusinessWeek?
- Gary Weiss submits: Marketwatch suggested on Tuesday that profit-hungry McGraw-Hill MHP, which just announced atrocious second quarter earnings, might actually close BW if a buyer can't be found: McGraw-Hill has several options, none of which will bring smiles to the faces of worried BusinessWeek staffers. Indeed, it can...
- External links 2009-07-30
- How Not to Revive BusinessWeek
- Gary Weiss submits: Alan M. Webber, co-founder of Fast Company, has some ideas in Huffington Post on how to revive BusinessWeek owned by MHP. I'm glad that someone of his caliber is thinking about that--heaven knows, BW needs new ideas--but the ones he has presented indicate, to be quite...
- External links 2009-07-15
- BusinessWeek's Strategic Options Being Explored Means...
- Gary Weiss submits: Since all the world now knows that McGraw-Hill MHP is shopping BusinessWeek, I'm perplexed by the corporate-speak of an email delivered to the staff after the news broke on Bloomberg, by BW publisher Keith Fox. It said as follows: by Gary Weiss
- External links 2009-07-15
- Business Week Is on the Block
- Gary Weiss submits: Recent rumors that BusinessWeek is for sale appear to be true. Bloomberg is reporting that McGraw-Hill MHP has hired Roger Altman's Evercore Partners to shop the magazine.Great timing, you have to admit. Ever hear of a more terrific climate for magazines? I can't. I'm sure McGraw...
- External links 2009-07-14
- Would Wasserstein Be Good for BusinessWeek?
- Gary Weiss submits: If I were a betting man (and mind you, I suck at betting), my guess would be that Bruce Wasserstein will buy BusinessWeek. That seems to be the conventional wisdom see here and here, and I agree.BW's Jon Fine even says, in an casual reference in...
- External links 2009-08-23
- The BusinessWeek Suitor-Numbers Game
- Gary Weiss submits: Bloomberg reported the surprising news that BusinessWeek was drawing the interest of 93 potential buyers. The basis was a televised interview with the CEO, Terry McGraw.Paid Content immediately tossed cold water on that, and Business Insider weighed in with a report saying that BusinessWeek morale...
- External links 2009-09-10
- If Zelnick Had Bought BusinessWeek
- Gary Weiss submits: It's still unclear how many former BusinessWeek editors will be hired by Bloomberg L.P., but one thing is increasingly clear: it could have been a hell of a lot worse. Peter Kafka describes the nightmare scenario: a purchase by private equity bloodhounds ZelnickMedia that would have...
- External links 2009-11-02
- First Casualty of the BusinessWeek Sale
- Gary Weiss submits: That was fast. Steve Adler's resignation from BusinessWeek was announced late Tuesday, and according to Keith Kelly it is likely to be followed by others. Kelly makes it seem as if the staff is in chaos, with one other top editor likely to go and the...
- External links 2009-10-22
- Questions Remain About Bloomberg's BusinessWeek Buyout
- Gary Weiss submits: Bloomberg L.P. officially became the buyer of BusinessWeek today, as expected. Here's a memo to the BW staff by the soon-to-be-former owner, and here's a Bloomberg press release.A few things are left unclear in the official pronouncements, and they're not minor: by Gary Weiss
- External links 2009-10-14
- McGraw Hill Is/Is Not Leaning Toward Bloomberg
- Gary Weiss submits: Continuing the maddeningly inconsistent coverage of the sale of BusinessWeek, Reuters reported that McGraw-Hill MHP is "leaning heavily" toward selling BusinessWeek to Bloomberg.Meanwhile, Keith Kelly reports in the New York Post that all is quiet on the Bloomberg front: ". . . the board has yet...
- External links 2009-09-30
- BusinessWeek Should Celebrate Its 80th Birthday
- Gary Weiss submits: The first issue, Sept. 7, 1929 Most publications would haul out all the trumpets for their 80th birthday, but BusinessWeek, ailing and for sale, has confined its trumpeting (so far, at least) to an online feature a couple of weeks...
- External links 2009-09-23
- Did BusinessWeek Lose Touch With its Readers?
- Gary Weiss submits: My old colleague Bruce Nussbaum, BusinessWeek's innovation guru, has an interesting blog post that is pretty much a first: a current BW staffer publicly engaging in soul-searching about the magazine's troubles, rather than just blaming it on the recession and exonerating the people who have been...
- External links 2009-09-21
- Another Slaughter at BusinessWeek?
- Gary Weiss submits: I've chronicled in this blog how my alma mater BusinessWeek has been decimated in recent years, with layoffs that have ousted its most experienced writers and editors. That, combined with an ill-conceived redesign and other missteps, has hurt the magazine editorially and been a commercial flop....
- External links 2009-09-16
- The Times Details BusinessWeek's Decline
- Gary Weiss submits: The New York Times today has a sobering article that remedies a deficiency in coverage of BusinessWeek's MHP recent troubles and pending sale. Rather than focusing on "suitors" and the broad numbers, Stephanie Clifford describes exactly how BW got in this mess. There's some disturbing stuff...
- External links 2009-09-14
- BusinessWeek Moves Closer to Salvation
- Gary Weiss submits: Great news for my alma mater: According to Keith Kelly at the New York Post, Bloomberg L.P. has tossed its hat in the ring for BusinessWeek MHP.Until now, the outlook for BW was bleak. The only bidders on the horizon, except for Joe Mansueto, were private...
- External links 2009-09-11
- More on Markopolos, Bernie Madoff and the Wall Street Journal
- Gary Weiss submits: Jason Linkins patiently combed through all the emails and other documentation released by Bernie Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos the other day, and the result is a definitive, blow-by-blow account of Markopolos's dealings with the Wall Street Journal in the Huffington Post.As I observed in an update...
- External links 2009-02-06
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