BW And Bloomberg Marriage Not So Bad, Relatively

If you’re a BusinessWeek staffer, you’re on tenterhooks right now as you wait to see whether you’ll still have a job after new owners Bloomberg take over.

But, as Peter Kafka reports, it could have been much, much worse.

If rival bidder ZelnickMedia had taken control of the mag (which it thought McGraw-Hill would pay it to do), the magazine would have been gutted, which we knew. What nobody knew was the extent of the damage.

ZelnickMedia planned to:

  • Wind down BusinessWeek’s print business “as profitably as possible”–the company would have to honor existing subscriptions and could still sell ads in the magazine.
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