Category: BusinessWeek

Packing up the BW office

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 25

In a cluttered office, I’m discovering, almost nothing is worth keeping. But as I pack my things, I come across two books that give me second thought: Are You Missing…

How to save this blog (or at least the posts)

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 22

Heather and I both got the word on Thursday that we won’t be part of BusinessWeek once Bloomberg takes over, on Dec. 1. (We’re both pleased with this outcome, though…

A new editor at BusinessWeek

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 17

Bloomberg annouced today that we’ll have a new editor-in-chief at BusinessWeek. His name is Josh Tyrangiel. He’s 37 years old and has little background in business. Those are both pluses,…

The BusinessWeek buyout: Can Bloomberg extend beyond its core?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 15

Several hundred BusinessWeek employees filed into an auditorium at the McGraw Hill headquarters yesterday morning to learn about their future. On the stage were top editors and execs from Bloomberg…

BusinessWeek launches iPhone and Blackberry Apps

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 01

I haven’t tried them out yet (my iPod touch doesn’t get WiFi in this office), but BW just launched apps for the Blackberry and the iPhone. Colleague Spencer Ante covers…

Attempt to quantify the value of editing

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 20

In my Thursday post about the layers of editing at BusinessWeek, I mentioned working with a colleague on one problematic sentence in an article about India. It didn’t take long…

How to remake BusinessWeek

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 16

Ideas on how to remake BusinessWeek—and whether the magazine should launch a Wiki to bring the rest of the world into the project.

Confirmed: McGraw-Hill shopping BusinessWeek

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 13

Well, it looks like we really are on the block, either for a sale or a partnership. Here’s the news from McGraw-Hill: NEW YORK, July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The McGraw-Hill…

Bloomberg reports that Businessweek is for sale

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 13

It didn’t take much time for the news to spread around the office, as I’m sure you can imagine. I should say at the top that I have no information…

Secret signals that the recession is lifting?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 07

Can you think of a metric in your life that might point to an improving economy? Some people might look for longer lines at Starbucks or perhaps fighting once again…

Responses on how to improve our blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 17

We got great responses to our post about our meeting in which we debated how to improve our blogs (and blog results) here at BW. I’m not going to bother…

BusinessWeek mulls goals and challenges in blogging

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 04

First things first: Please don’t hesitate to share your views on this post, preferably in comments: That’s how we BusinessWeek bloggers, in large measure, are being measured. In a meeting…

Video for a story that won’t die

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 21

You might remember that last year we updated the old Blogs cover. It continues to get heavy traffic, thanks in part to strong Google juice. Also, a few professors are…

Congratulations to Heather

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 18

While I was gone last week, Heather had her baby. It’s a girl named Lilly, and apparently everything went fine. I haven’t seen the pictures yet, but I hear from…

My new research: What is a friend?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 07

Stephen Baker launches research on “What is a Friend?” and asks for ideas about people to interview and companies to visit.

Social media voices of innovation: Done

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 10

After an interminable drum roll, here’s the package on four Voices of Innovation in social media. The overview starts with a profile of Ford’s Scott Monty. It moves on to…

Update on voices of social media story

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 03

Here’s an update on that story, the voices of innovation in social media, which I’ve been talking about for way too long. As I mentioned in January, we picked four…

Social Media Voices of Innovation: Results

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 23

We studied scores of recommendations and have come up with Voices of Innovation in four different categories for social media. They are: Hidebound Hero: Scott Monty, Ford Eyes to the…

Voice of Innovation: Breaking the rules

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 20

I’ve received a handful of e-mailed nominations for our Voice of Innovation in social media. I write back, telling people to put their nominations in comments, so that everyone else…

Social media Voice of Innovation: Need specifics

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 16

The hunt for a Voice of Innovation in social media goes on. (I was distracted for a week by the vox stimuli project.) As Adam Kmiec and others have pointed…

Twitter stream on VoxStimuli

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 07

We’re trying something new. It’s a Twitter stream on the side of our VoxStimuli blog. The idea is that people who want to suggest or debate an idea about Obama’s…

Hunt for social media maven: New ideas

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 05

Many have criticized the popularity contest flavor of our outreach for innovators in social media. But at least one commenter, Barbara Gibson, weighs in with a recommendation: But one problem…

Voices of Innovation: Not an election

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 30

More comments have come in, both with new recommendations and some critiques. I’ve also had a few hours to think. So here’s a response on our selection process for the…

Criticisms of our approach

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 30

In a comment to our call for social media “voice of innovation,” Adam Kmiec asks a pertinent question. He asks what qualifications we are using to define someone as 1)…

Who should we profile as social media maven? Your suggestions…

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 29

Here’s the list of those nominated as a “voice of innovation” in social media. My favorite answer of all was a curmudgeonly tweet from Charlie O’Donnell, who asked a very…

BW story: Free labor economy

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 29

Here’s a piece I wrote on the free labor economy. The idea is that companies have to come up with new HR skills and incentives to engage free laborers, especially…

I need help: Who’s a voice of innovation?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 24

I have to write a profile of a social media leader as part of a voices of innovation series. Nominations are open. Here’s how my colleague Helen Walters describes it:…

Freak out: Twitter infested by PR

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 17

A couple days ago, our top online editor, John Byrne, posted all of the BusinessWeek Twitter addresses on his blog. Suddenly, there were some very uncomfortable people roaming these halls….

Vox Simuli launches: Lend your vox

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 16

BusinessWeek’s new blog, Vox Stimuli, asks for ideas about how to spend $500 billion in stimulus funds. The blog needs work. Ideas?

How to create a green energy economy: Raise fuel prices

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 27

I’m trying to get some discussion started on our new BWInfrastructure ning community. So I posted this comment on the forum. Anyone agree? Disagree? Head over to the page and…

Help needed for BW story: How to spend the stimulus?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 26

BusinessWeek asks for help on an editorial project: How should the Obama government spend the stimulus funds?

Evolution of LinkedIn story

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 10

There are at least two things that are fundamentally changing how we do our journalism jobs. 1) The Google effect. Among many other things, it pulls advertising from traditional (paper)…

This Week’s Digital Dish

Posted by: Heather Green on September 19

This week, we discuss what Wall Street’s crisis means for the technology sector and then goes on to address Hewlett-Packard’s big EDS-related layoffs. Also, very unfortunately for us, Catherine…

BW’s Best of the Web Contest

Posted by: Heather Green on September 10

BW is pulling together the annual Best of the Web list. We put the list together based on your votes, so come on down and vote for your favorite blog,…

Inside BW: personal brands versus SEO

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 03

Ulli Muenker, Our search engine optimization expert visited my office last week. As we talked, she let drop that Blogspotting was a most search-engine-unfriendly name. Who, after all, sits down…

This Week’s Digital Dish

Posted by: Heather Green on August 22

This week, we examine HP’s earnings, Comcast’s reaction to the FCC, and whether Microsoft’s new ads starring Jerry Seinfeld will solve Vista’s perception problems…

BusinessWeek to launch Business Exchange

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 18

Now that the announcement has been made (in the NYTimes), I can finally write about BusinessWeek’s Business Exchange. It’s a big bid by our company to create communities around topics…

This Week’s Digital Dish

Posted by: Heather Green on August 04

This week: What should Apple do with its $20 billion cash pile,is FCC doing the right thing with Comcast, what’s next for Scrabulous,and how Twilight became a social networking…

How Social Networking Made the Twilight Novels

Posted by: Heather Green on August 01

I had a lot of fun writing a story about Twilight, the bestselling novels for teens about an teenage vampire and the human girl he loves. My story looks at…

Is teaching older workers a productivity drain?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 09

This idea came up when I asked on Twitter about generational issues in the workplace. @diabolicalpnthr responded (in 2 tweets): “It kills productivity to have to explain social media and…

The Yahoo resignation template

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 13

Catherine Holahan (who sits close enough to hear my fingers typing) has noticed a certain similarity in the goodbye e-mails flowing out of Yahoo—and has assembled a farewell memo template….

Readers to BW columnist: No jokes

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 30

Readers don’t appreciate Roben Farzad’s lighthearted call for windfall tax on Google.

Would you miss BusinessWeek if it disappeared?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 28

Brand Autopsy, in part of an ongoing series, asks: Would you miss BusinessWeek if it went poof?

Business at Work: Need Help

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 23

A plea for help for a BusinessWeek special report on work/life issues

BW cover story, Beyond Blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 23

This may be getting as tiresome and anticlimactic as American Idol, but… That rewrite of the blog cover story we’ve been talking about for ages is finally in print. Turned…

Looking for blog recommendations

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 07

I’m talking to some BW colleagues about blogging today. Jeff Jarvis was in last week and gave a great talk. In fact, one of my colleagues, whom I already considered…

This Week’s Digital Dish

Posted by: Heather Green on April 21

Here’s our latest Digital Dish, the video show from tech reporters here at BW. This week, Surprise! Earnings reports are pretty good. We talk about the washout that wasn’t…

Mandel: Journalism heading into a golden age

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 10

BW’s chief economist, Michael Mandel, plunked into a chair in my office and provided such a cheery assessment of our battered profession, that I thought I’d pass it on. His…

What I told the PR people about BW, Blogspotting, and me

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 08

Just got back from a PCNY luncheon where four other journalists and I told a roomful of PR people how we do our jobs (and where pr fits in). These…

As journalists leave, they abandon the ad economy

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 04

I’m going for to a send-off party this p.m. for two longtime colleagues, Frank Comes and Mary Kuntz. They’re moving to McKinsey Quarterly. Now I’m thinking about other recent departures…

BusinessWeek’s deal with LinkedIn

Posted by: Stephen Baker on March 21

Here’s a post on BusinessWeek’s partnership with LinkedIn. The idea is that readers of BusinessWeek.com will be able to access all kinds of information, including LinkedIn contacts at companies they’re…

Inside and outside of TED

Posted by: Stephen Baker on March 03

There’s always some inhouse competition to get media passes to events like Davos and TED. You can see the results in these two views of TED. Helen Walters got to…

Kid unveils innovation machine at TED

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 21

Here’s a story I wrote on 21-year-old entrepreneur, Ben Kaufman, who got a couple extra doses of chutzpa somewhere along the line. He has developed a social network called Kluster,…

Building the perfect laptop

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 18

Gadget hounds might want to check out Steve Hamm’s cover, Building the Perfect Laptop. It’s an inside look at Lenovo’s drive to build a $3,000 solid-state laptop, the ThinkPad X300….

I can’t wait to get my brain read in one of those machines

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 28

Here’s my article on Neuromarketing, one of eight top tech trends for 2008….

Digital Dish on BW Online

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 28

I joined as a guest on the Digital Dish video last week. We talked about which CEOs will (or won’t) survive what’s shaping up to be a tempestuous 2008. (We’ve…

Lipitor users: Read BW cover

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 19

If you take Lipitor or its cholesterol-fighting kin, you should take a look at this week’s BW cover story. The statistics about its (in)effectiveness are alarming. Other drugs are questionable…

Email to the wrong me

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 11

Some of you will recall that there was an imposter circulating under my name at last fall’s Demo conference in San Diego. Now I get this e-mail: Hi Stephen, I…

Book Review: Nicholas Carr’s Big Switch

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 10

My review of Carr’s The Big Switch. Interesting book that spins out a vision of utility computing. He spends nearly half the book describing a similar shift a century ago,…

BW Tech Show: Digital Dish and 2008 Tech Predictions

Posted by: Heather Green on January 07

A crew of us at BW started a weekly video show called the Digital Dish. We would love it if you would take a gander and give us a little…

BW Tech Show: Digital Dish and 2008 Tech Predictions

Posted by: Heather Green on January 07

A crew of us at BW started a weekly video show called the Digital Dish. We would love it if you would take a gander and give us a little…

Cloud cover story skewered in online mag

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 21

The Register writes that my cover story on Google “borders on delusional.” Fair enough. What irks me is the subhead, which purports to understand our motives: In a rather desperate…

What if I had blogged the cover while reporting?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 19

Months ago I drove out to Pittsburgh for two days of reporting at Carnegie Mellon U. I came back with a story idea, and I said I could have it…

BW cover: Google and the cloud

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 13

Well, I’ve been working on this Google story for a long time, and it’s finally out. It tells the story of a 27-year-old programmer at Google, Christophe Bisciglia, who came…

Rewriting our old blog cover

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 30

Asks for suggestions on turning our 2005 blogging cover into a Wiki

Ingram: BusinessWeek doesn’t get user-generated stuff

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 26

Mathew Ingram complains that BusinessWeek simplifies and slams User Generated Content. He writes: The thing that really bugs me about the BusinessWeek article is that there’s this false dichotomy between…

Smoking out the fake me: Drunkard!

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 08

Here’s an ethical question I’ve been wrestling with for the past minute and a half or so: If someone steals my identity, walks around a convention wearing a badge with…

Jarvis’s in BW:Hell, Dell’s heavenly

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 19

Jeff Jarvis writes about his visit with Michael Dell in the latest BusinessWeek. Customer service at Dell, if you recall, made Jarvis’s life hell two years ago, and his blogging…

Why BW’s redesign arrived in elephant time

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 13

Rex Hammock puzzles over a New York Times article on BW’s redesign. Second head-scratcher from the NY Times article is this snip: “The redesign comes from 18 months of…

BusinessWeek redesigns

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 11

Certain people on this floor already have copies of the new, redesigned BusinessWeek. We’re all eager to see it, because we have every reason to believe that the change will…

Microsoft’s spam-blockers take on HIV

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 21

I did a story with Jay Greene this week on Microsoft’s attempt to tackle the HIV virus with the same tools they use to block spam. I’m interested in how…

The Fate of Generalities

Posted by: Heather Green on September 12

One of the skills of doing a story for a print pubication is getting the ideas to fit on the page. Unlike an online article or a blog post, you…

BW Microsoft article stirs ripples in Redmond

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 01

Skepticism on MiniMicrosoft surrounding the upbeat BW article about Microsoft’s HR leader, Lisa Brummel. MiniMicrosoft, who was interviewed for the article, refers to the depiction of Msft as “Happyville.” Commenters…

Who reads off-line?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 28

When you’re blogging, it’s easy to start thinking that everyone who matters is with you online. I often find myself thinking that way. Way back when Heather and I did…

Skype: Unreliable, perhaps, but just what we need

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 24

I just wrote my first magazine piece in a long time. I argue that we’re surrounded by less than fail-safe technology—and that this is probably a good thing. Funny thing….

The cover curse: explained

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 20

A study explains the business magazine cover curse

What to ask Six Apart?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 17

What new tech features does Blogspotting need?

What should we do with this blog?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 09

Blogspotting is growing stale. What should we do?

I’m back: Rip van Winkle wakes up

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 02

I’m heading into BusinessWeek this morning for my first day of magazine work in 15 months. My leave is history. I have no idea what to write about, and I…

Heather’s wedding

Posted by: Stephen Baker on June 04

It was beautiful and fun, and we all danced into the night. And now the newlyweds are away on their honeymoon. I fear that Heather has taken with her (or…

Slow Blogspotting, wedding bells

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 30

I think this’ll be a slow week for the Blogspotting team. One of us is getting married, and the other is wondering what to wear. Heather’s instructions say something about…

Yet another new BW blog: Green Biz

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 23

I just found this one today. Green Biz. It’s the work of Adam Aston, my New York pal, and John Carey, from the Washington bureau. Here’s my question for them:…

New BW blog, new template

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 21

I’ve been thinking about the design of this blog and, frankly, I’m not loving it. Lots of you have blogs that are better looking. So I was thinking of…

Growth for BW Online site

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 01

Looks like the BW Online site registered strong growth in the last year, according to this study by MIN Online. (ex Mathew Ingram) Every Day with Rachael Ray, a cooking…

Sun: Brighter prospects for new hires than Google?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 01

Colleague Peter Burrows blogs his Q&A with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Most of it’s about Google, for the cover story, Who’s Afraid of Google?. Schwartz describes Google in the…

How should companies hire bloggers?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on March 19

I’m on a panel tomorrow at a Folio Publishing conference in Chicago. The theme: What to Look for When Hiring Editorial Talent for Blogs, Webinars, and Social Networks. I welcome…

T.S. Eliot on deadlines and three-column stories

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 05

I’m taking a train into New York today to have lunch with my editor at BW. We’ll talk about the transition from bookwriting back to magazine, and all that…

Me on math

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 15

Here’s an interview I did with people at the Tepper (Biz) School at Carnegie Mellon about math and business. It follows last year’s cover story, but includes some new ideas…

Who has time for revenge?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 14

The latest BusinessWeek has a cover story on revenge, and its central role as a motivator in the world of business. My question: Are these revenge-minded leaders more primitive than…

BW writers duel over Zune

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 08

Our colleague Jay Greene writes an article saying that Microsoft Zune is holding its own. As is the case with most of the stories we publish, not everyone on staff…

Goodbye to an editor

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 10

We said goodbye yesterday to retiring foreign editor, Bob Dowling. I’ll always revere him, if for nothing else than rescuing me from a daily in El Paso and sending me…

Amazon’s next chapter

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 03

Interesting cover story by Rob Hof on Jeff Bezos’ plans to turn Amazon into a technology platform for other companies. Essentially, Amazon has developed technology and expertise for running its…

Disclosure: the rules are in flux for all

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 02

Michael Arrington writes: We don’t fit into a neat little box like traditional media, who refrain from financial conflicts of interest with their readers and feel that they are…

Writing for an audience of one

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 30

For years at BusinessWeek, I wrote for an audience of one. At least that’s the way I saw it. If an article pleased the editor in chief, it really didn’t…

Is the Blackberry stealing readers from BusinessWeek?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 12

A very critical story about BusinessWeek just came out in The New Republic. The story, behind a firewall, says that we’re turning into the People of the business world in…

Fighting to Hear Bad News At BW

Posted by: Heather Green on September 29

I got into my hotel late last night, only to discover that my only Internet option was dialup. So I fought through that to get to my email and find…

BusinessWeek makes staff cuts

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 28

I got word that something was up in an e-mail. Then I called a friend, who it turned out had just gotten fired. This is 21st century life in our…

Arrington’s TechCrunch tops BW blog favorites

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 27

BW online has polled readers on their favorite blogs. Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch finished in first, followed by Infectious Greed, Paul Kedrosky’s blog, and the New York site, Gothamist. I would…

BW on click fraud: A hint of schadenfreude

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 22

BusinessWeek’s cover story about click fraud has lots of good and fresh reporting on the subject. Not sure I go along with the conclusion, though. In the last paragraph, the…

Battery Recall: Win for the Web

Posted by: Heather Green on August 30

BW’s Steve Hamm did an interesting narrative about how blogs and online media sites kept the heat on about the imploding laptop batteries, pushing Apple and Dell to respond. Hamm…

BW podcast on personal brand-building ignores blogs—and podcasts

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 28

BW Exec Editor John Byrne launched a new podcast on career advice while I was on vacation. He interviews interviews Marshall Goldsmith, an executive coach. It’s slickly produced and worth…

What A Week

Posted by: Heather Green on August 11

What a week, indeed. On a personal level, I felt little desire to blog after the whole BW Digg cover story ruckus. In the interest of uncorking my chakra, here…

BW’s article on Digg, one response

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 07

Last week’s BW cover story on Digg provoked lots of angry responses in the blogs. Since I’m on book leave, I’m a bit of an outsider. But I went onto…

Dumping on BW cover on Digg

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 04

To say that Rafat Ali has issues with the BW cover on Digg would be putting it mildly. In his Paid Content post, he calls it “the most fisk-worthy Web…

Horrors: Blackberry duplicate reviews

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 30

Bad day for a reviewer. I just learned that BW Online already ran a review on the Blackberry that I just reviewed. So I got my draft sent back to…

Out to the West Coast

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 29

I’m flying to Portland today, and then down to the San Francisco area for reporting. I think Heather’s on the road. I can’t OK comments with this computer. I’m told…

BW’s Rob Hof spawns an avatar

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 22

Here’s a fun cover story by BW’s Rob Hof about virtual gaming. I especially like the end, where he gets mad at a few virtual squatters who have invaded his…

BW story on Green Tags

Posted by: Heather Green on April 03

Here’s the BW story I did on a renewable energy product called green tags, which provide a novel way to buy green energy. It’s the fastest growing product on the…

Should BW Online match Epicurious.com?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 03

All the talk I’ve been hearing about online strategies at mainstream pubs involves extending the franchise. And yet I read in today’s New York Times about the brilliance of Conde…

Time Inc. puts blogs at center of strategy

Posted by: Stephen Baker on March 29

This WSJ story lays out Time Inc’s Internet strategy. To this BW staffer, it looks pretty familiar. BW too is tearing down walls between online and print staffs, prodding print…

Reader suggests BusinessWeek doesn’t understand mag business

Posted by: Stephen Baker on March 28

Interesting responses to Ben Elgin’s BW article on Google’s fizzling foray into magazine ads. One reader, Labeler2003, writes: “Come on Business Week. You know more about print advertising than this…

Blogging When You’re Writing

Posted by: Heather Green on March 24

Writing about something entirely unrelated to blogging seems to interfere with the urge to blog.

Should mainstream bloggers be paid extra? Should I?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on March 20

Bloggers at the Washington Post are wondering if they should be paid extra. (ex BusinessBlogWire) This made me think about… myself. I’m on unpaid leave from BusinessWeek, and I’m continuing…

Listomania

Posted by: Heather Green on March 14

In which we realize that we made a top 25 list of influential authorities of business blogging.

BlackBerry and a Disappearing Act

Posted by: Heather Green on February 10

I wasn’t able to post yesterday because in my alter ego I cover BlackBerry. So yesterday, I had to do a quick explainer about the workaround RIM plans to put…

Ex-BW staffer blogs on ad drop at BusinessWeek

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 25

Former BusinessWeek Senior Writer Gary Weiss analyses disappointing numbers at BusinessWeek.

New BW Blog on Working Parents

Posted by: Heather Green on January 24

The latest BW blog delves into some of the issues that working parents deal with each day. As BW’s Amy Dunkin explains…” We recognize that all parents, whether they go…

Help! I have to review the video iPod

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 20

Stephen Baker asks for help on his upcoming review of Apple’s video iPod for BusinessWeek Online.

Blogging our stories would change this blog—for better or for worse?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 16

Should Blogspotting shift its focus as the two journalists write about other types of stories?

A few more math covers

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 14

A host my own mock-up covers for the BW cover story on math

My secret life: keeping the math cover story out of the blog

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 13

Stephen Baker discusses the conflicts of being a blogger and working at the same time on a long secret project, a cover story on math

Gail Edmondson, auto blogger

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 10

Gail Edmondson, BusinessWeek’s new auto blogger, is looking for advice.

How Apple could mess up again: a special report

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 10

Points to BW special report on How Apple Could Fall

Scathing critique of investment coverage

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 05

Columbia Journalism blog critiques BusinessWeek’s investment outlook

We’re Back

Posted by: Heather Green on December 19

We were down for a while because of a network hiccup. They did some work on the BW network over the weekend, which prevented us in NY from being able…

Do-it-yourself journalism: Rewrite a BusinessWeek story

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 08

Think a BusinessWeek story missed an important point? Which paragraph would you put it into, and what would you cut to make the space?

BusinessWeek closes down Europe and Asian editions

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 07

BusinessWeek shutters Europe and Asian editions.

BW cover story on social networks

Posted by: Stephen Baker on December 03

BusinessWeek cover story by Jessi Hempel looks at social networks as marketing vehicles.

BusinessWeek cover studies Google’s gold

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 25

BW cover story follows Google wealth

In praise of misunderstandings: How they can jumpstart a discussion

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 03

How a misunderstanding on a BusinessWeek blog broke new ground on Ford

BusinessWeek unveils new blog: Byte of the Apple

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 02

BusinessWeek launches a new blog about Apple, Byte of the Apple

New BusinessWeek feature focuses on ScotusBlog

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 31

New BusinessWeek weekly blog feature focuses on Scotusblog

Blog layout: Are we that ugly?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 28

A critic lays into BusinessWeek’s blog design.

Thank God for Gmail… But I avoid it

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 27

Points to a BW Online review of Gmail, which admires the innovation but dislikes the service