Entries tagged "Business Week"

David Carr and the death of aspiration

David Carr buries the business magazines in a shallow grave in The New York Times Monday, but there are any number of reasons to be skeptical of this broad and gloomy diagnosis.

BusinessWeek sale ekes out $5.9M profit

The small gain is a bonanza for McGraw-Hill as BusinessWeek saw ad pages fall 29.3% during the third quarter and 34.7% through the first nine months of 2009.

Bloomberg staff might run BusinessWeek

Should Bloomberg win the auction for BusinessWeek, WWD reports that the staff from Bloomberg Markets magazine would provide editorial for the acquired title.

Zelnick, Thomson may partner in BizWeek bid?

Looking to trump a Bloomberg bid for Business Week, Thomson Reuters reportedly may partner with Zelnick in a bid for the weekly.

Bloomberg spends $65M so far for re-election

Former Wall Street dealmaker Michael Bloomberg has opened his wallet to the tune of $65 million so far for his re-election bid for New York City mayor.

BusinessWeek hits bad times, up for sale

With advertising revenues falling, McGraw-Hill has reportedly put BusinessWeek on the auction block.

Media Maneuvers: Miracle cures

Recently demonized, buyout shops are suddenly the salvation of banking and a Gawker sibling site that blames it all on Glass-Steagall....

BusinessWeek's unnecessary bashing of the Freescale buyout

BusinessWeek's Emily Thornton has made a specialty of bashing private equity for years, and the magazine's April 14 cover story on the LBO of Freescale Semiconductor Inc. certainly continues in that vein: "When a Buyout Goes Bad: First came Freescale's ugly private equity deal. Now the chipmaker has lost its CEO -- and its bearings." ...

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