As the first slate of news shows produced exclusively for Facebook Watch debut next week, the social network today announced a fresh slate of programs from publishers including Bloomberg, BuzzFeed and NowThis.
Shows from CNN, Fox News, ABC owned stations, Univision and ATTN begin airing on Monday in a new section of…
Twitter has reached a milestone deal with Bloomberg to launch a 24-hour news network, expanding the social media company’s ambitious push into video.
The companies are expected to make a joint announcement of the new venture Monday, according to numerous reports Sunday night. Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith tweeted…
Add Bloomberg L.P. to the list of media outlets deciding to opt out of hosting parties at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Vanity Fair, which traditionally co-hosted the party at the French Ambassador’s residence, pulled out earlier this month.
Bloomberg joins a growing list of media outlets who don’t…
Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann today say so long to With All Due Respect, the election-cycle series they have hosted for Bloomberg the past two years and more. The final edition of the series, also seen on MSNBC, will feature Jeff Daniels and other celebrity Friends Of Show, some serious…
UPDATE with official confirmation:Â Publisher Pearson has confirmed it has sold the Financial Times to Japanese media company Nikkei for $1.3 billion. The education publisher earlier today had said it was in advanced discussions with a then-unknown media company to sell the evergreen (or it should be everpink) business…
Matthew Winkler, founding editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News and one of the most skilled survivors in a tumultuous and ever-shifting media environment, has been kicked upstairs by the boss who hired him 25 years ago. Winkler’s replacement as editor-in-chief will be John Mickelthwait, the regarded top editor of The Econo…
The change underscores the business news company’s determination to develop its new media platforms. Justin Smith became a digital superstar at Atlantic Media, best known for its respected monthly magazine The Atlantic. Through a series of online initiatives, the former publisher of The Week and head of corporate…
Journalists at Bloomberg took advantage of the company’s network of market information terminals to spy on a number of users including Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, CNBC reports. Access to terminal data revealed to the employees which functions had been accessed and how frequently by clients including Goldman…
The Federal Communications Commission announced today that Comcast has to give Bloomberg's business channel a better spot on the cable giant's system. The Commission's Media Bureau, citing conditions of Comcast’s 2011 merger with NBCUniversal, ruled "the news neighborhooding condition requires Comcast to carry all…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – February 2, 2012 – News Corporation today named Lex Fenwick Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones & Company. Mr. Fenwick joins Dow Jones from Bloomberg LP, where he spent 25 years, most recently as CEO of Bloomberg Ventures. He will be based in New York and report to Chase Carey, President and…
I’d be stunned if Comcast and Bloomberg TV don’t settle their spat about Bloomberg’s channel position on Comcast cable systems before the FCC has to step in. But for now their saber-rattling makes for entertaining theater about an interesting question: What did the FCC mean when, in approving Comcast’s acquisition of…
Broadcasting & Cable today published a long interview with Disney/ABCTV Chief Anne Sweeney (subscription required), and here is what’s interesting:
— The “one piece of talent” on the air whom she doesn’t have currently and wants? Why, the Viscount Of Vapidity: “I was just thinking about Ryan Seacrest, but we just had…
