Media observers are speculating a deal for McGraw-Hill Cos. to sell BusinessWeek could be put together within the next few months. So far, OpenGate Ca...
Mike Lux | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Regulate them, prosecute them, and break them up are the only answers to keep big banks, those amoral leeches, from bringing our fragile economy down again.
BusinessWeek | Jon Fine | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
The McGraw-Hill Companies' (MHP) exploration of its strategic options for BusinessWeek has drawn several potential bidders, executives familiar with t...
Alan M. Webber | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media
BW needs to create a franchise. Because it's not print that's dead, or even print about business that's dead. It's old and tired franchises that are dead, franchises that have run out of gas, purpose and energy.
FT | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
McGraw-Hill might reap only a nominal $1 by selling Business Week, according to people familiar with the 80-year-old financial magazine's record of lo...
Bloomberg | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
July 13 (Bloomberg) -- McGraw-Hill Cos. hired Evercore Partners Inc., the boutique investment bank founded by Roger Altman, to sell BusinessWeek magaz...
MediaWeek | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media
In the latest online paid content experiment by a publisher, BusinessWeek will create a special presentation of its print magazine content that will o...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
If it's just as rational to be optimistic as to be pessimistic, why does the media have to pick one or the other? Why are those the only two choices?
Charles Warner | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
The cover of the current (May 25) issue of BusinessWeek features Good to Great author Jim Collins, and inside the issue is an exclusive excerpt from h...
James Warren | Posted 03.11.2009 | Media
So what kind of guy is engaged to Uma Thurman, is a magnanimous patron of charities, and is proof that, if born with a huge silver spoon in your mouth, you can still do good while doing well?
James Warren | Posted 02.04.2009 | Media
Despite the difficulty for journalists in reporting on the latest mess in Gaza, given onerous press restrictions, it's an obvious topic for many magazines, with most suggesting more reason for fatalism.
James Warren | Posted 01.07.2009 | Media
If you inexplicably found any of those auto guys arousing in a more primal way, a leading news magazine suggests that "the quality of a man's sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa."
James Warren | Posted 12.17.2008 | Media
It's pretty unclear if the latest version of Bond could handle Foreign Policy's "The List: Five Real Missions for 007." Back in the real world, here's what I'd love a secret agent to do.
James Warren | Posted 12.03.2008 | Media
What's really at stake in Tuesday's election? Many usual suspects are opining in the cable universe, so for a cerebral alternative there's "A Fateful Election" in the Nov. 6 New York Review of Books.
Charles Warner | Posted 07.29.2008 | Media
Newspaper and magazine content will continue to be valuable and read; it will just have a different, far less expensive and more rational distribution channel -- the Internet.
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
Last week began with the return of eminence grise Jim Hansen, twenty years to the day since he first testified on warming. And it ended with Bill Gates riding off into the philanthropic sunset.
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Good luck getting your hands on Adam Gopnik's latest treatise next time you visit your local Wal-Mart (WMT). The world's biggest retailer is pulling C...
New York Times | MICHAEL J. de la MERCED | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
A former Goldman Sachs associate who was accused of masterminding one of the broadest insider-trading conspiracies in years was sentenced on Thursday ...
Women's Wear Daily | Stephanie D. Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
BusinessWeek on Wednesday unveiled a reshuffling of its editorial team and layoffs of a dozen staffers on the business and editorial sides, cuts staff...
Silicon Valley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Are you sick of this cleaver image? Us too. Alas: BusinessWeek is laying off 8 to 10 12 staffers, "mostly from the magazine" and not the pub's website...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
UAL Corp (UAUA.O), parent of the No. 2 U.S. carrier United Airlines, is keen for a possible merger, according to an article in the Dec 3 edition of Bu...
BusinessWeek | Dan Macsai | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Engaging a room full of college kids is no easy task, but these professors make it seem simple. From good-luck snacks to glowing recommendations, sere...
WWD | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media