The Bloomberg/BW Culture Clash, Round Two

Yesterday’s Times ran an article about how Bloomberg and BusinessWeek’s merger is going. They titled it “An Uneasy Marriage of the Cultish and the Rumpled.”

It sounds rough over there for the magazine journalists unused to Bloomberg’s fast-paced, metrics-driven culture: “The head of Bloomberg’s ‘speed desk’… was especially proud… when the desk published a headline seconds ahead of Reuters, and a young trader had made enough money from that lead alone to buy a Hummer.

“A Businessweek employee raised her hand.

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