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more about #businessweek more comments → louise: Let's hope the SI/Fortune PTB don't follow their HBO brethren's example and have the HR head do a victory lap w/her VP showing off new mink coats pur... more » dreweverett: At least one print outlet is being "resurrected." From TPM - "Staff of the Southern Voice, a gay weekly in Atlanta and one of the handful of publicat... more » TheBusinessGuy: Naturally the horrible murders in the Philippines dwarfs anything else in this post--the enormity of the evil is staggering. But to deal with what my... more » snugbug: Did anyone else get the "Pimmel über Berlin" (Penis over Berlin) pun? It riffs on "Der Himmel über Berlin" (The Heaven over Berlin) title of that fa... more » BunnySkull: Now why doesn't the NYT do a Murdoch mural like that on the side of their building? These German are taking us to school on how a real editorial feud... more » senatormayer: That's what trying to conquer the world does to a country. You wind up with cocks on the sides of buildings. more » Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Also, read between the lines on the GMA item: The staffers are concerned about the show's basketball team as much as anything else. more » Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Right, because cobras have hoods, just like European wieners. more » manchops: You wanna save Sports Illustrated? GET RID OF TERRY MCDONNELL. The guy sat at Esquire watching circulation fall through the floor, his only real talen... more » Rozelle’s Bagman: Suzy cream cheese? #jackwelch more » Ima_letchu_finish: Yeah....cause Suzy ran dry....but they do make a cream for that. #jackwelch more » crookedE: Have you noticed her styling lately? she always shows up on Morning Joe looking like she spent all night dancing on a banquette and didn't make it hom... more » hamburgerhotdog: It's a bad day for contour eyeshadow. #businessweek more » britneyspearstears: [lo-filosophy.com] #media more » BadUncle: So, a once-proud magazine sells for the same price as a Bernie Madoff coke den? #media more » -
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Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
In your trepidatious Tuesday media column: we hear the Time Inc. layoffs hit Fortune (and others?) today, BusinessWeek speaks robot language, Dave Eggers will not stop saving print, and a horrible massacre of journalists in the Philippines. More » -
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German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
In your ferocious Friday media column: Newspaper wars in Germany are of another breed, another high school paper censored for dumb reasons, more on the BusinessWeek layoffs, and George Stephanopoulos' fluff chops questioned. More » -
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BusinessWeek Layoffs Make Fools of Optimists
The long-expected BusinessWeek layoffs came down yesterday, with 130 staffers let go—a full third of its employees. Is it fair to call that a "surprise?" More » -
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Rumors: Staff Shuffles at New York Post, Sports Illustrated
In your foreboding Thursday media column: Rumors of veterans departing their jobs far and wide, Anthony Kennedy's story weakens, newspapers and magazines lose huge money, and Jon Fine's media gig disappears. More » -
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BusinessWeek Names New Editor, Starts Layoffs (Perhaps) (Updated)
BusinessWeek, which is in full reinvention mode since its was bought by Bloomberg last month, has found itself a new editor. We also hear layoffs are coming. Full info below. (UPDATED, with internal memo). More » -
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Jack Welch —
the former G.E. chief executive expressing relief that he and his wife Suzy will, like Maria Bartiromo, no longer write a column for BusinessWeek now that it's owned by Bloomberg, to the New York Post. -
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BizWeek Geeks Tell Chic Money Honey, 'You're Done-y'
Bloomberg, the new owner of Businessweek, is dumping Maria "Contractually Obligated to be called 'Money Honey'" Bartiromo from her gig as a BW columnist, Business Insider reports. That's not the worst decision in the world. More » -
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BusinessWeek Just Not Eight-Figure Material
In your manly Monday media column: BusinessWeek's actual sale price revealed, America's most fucked newspapers revealed, Gene Weingarten revealed to still be (reasonably) funny, and a job revealed at Conde Nast! Oh, too late. More » -
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Bloomberg-ing of BusinessWeek Begins: Editor Out
Steve Adler resigned as editor in chief of BusinessWeek, the New York Post's Keith Kelly reports, effective as soon as Bloomberg LP completed its expected takeover of the McGraw-Hill magazine. This was to be expected. More » -
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Flacks Love This Businessweek Deal
In your overstuffed Wednesday media column: a PR man cheers Bloomberg's latest purchase, Calvin Trillin says crotchety things, the New Yorker hires(!) somebody, Brides loses advertisers, and the Washington Post poaches from HuffPo, for a change. More » -
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Bloomberg Buys BusinessWeek
As expected, Bloomberg has won the bidding for Businessweek magazine, beating out the investment firm ZelnickMedia. They ended up paying more than the cost of McChicken, after all. More » -
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How Scared Should Businessweek's Staff Be?
Most of the serious bidders for Businessweek have dropped away, leaving Bloomberg as the leading candidate. We know BW's not exactly a fountain of profit these days. But would Bloomberg really gut the magazine's entire staff? More » -
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Zuckerman Leaves Businessweek to Bloomberg
In your crushing Wednesday media column: another media bankruptcy, the Businessweek sale draws nearer, Paula Froelich occupies her time, and the magazine industry has an idea! More » -
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There Is No Media Platform Which Meghan McCain Does Not Deserve to Dominate
In your willful Wednesday media column: Meghan McCain is the queen of all media, BusinessWeek's sale grinds on, Lou Dobbs catches a boycott, and you can finally find political opinions, on the internet. More » -
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BusinessWeek: Wasserstein Out, Layoffs Coming
In your revenue-generating Tuesday media column: the BusinessWeek bidding draws to a close, Americans would pay only a pittance for newspaper websites, Peter Shankman's getting rich somehow, and the WaPo is determined not to write about dwarves. More » -
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Bloomberg Wants BusinessWeek
Bloomberg LP has entered the "bidding war," of a sort, for BusinessWeek magazine. Suck it, Bruce Wasserstein. More » -
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Vibe Editor Gets Marginally Fancier Job
In your world-beating Wednesday media column: Vibe's former editor moves up(?) in the world, people amazingly still want to buy the Sun-Times and BusinessWeek, the college newspaper marches on towards death, and media elites marry. More » -
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Which Lucky Rich Guys Will Get to Subsidize BusinessWeek?
In your sweaty Wednesday media column: Bruce Wasserstein winning a dubious race, sports columnists are being eaten by Twitter, a Hunter S. Thompson story, and more! More » -
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Consumers Know: 'Free' Media Must Suck
In your sizzling Tuesday media column: the future of the media is paid, Newsweek fights the power in Iran, another mag mogul kicks BusinessWeek's tires (made of paper), and Dan Rather's madder'n a lake trout with fiery testicles, at CBS. More » -
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New York Times Kidnapping Conundrum
In your finally Friday media column: The NYT looks ethically inconsistent and its management is mush-mouthed, Bruce Wasserstein contemplates buying BusinessWeek, and Fleet Street dies, unnoticed. More »
