Dow Jones to sell out in 2006?
That’s the prediction of Peter Newcomb at Forbes, who writes today that he thinks that the Bancroft family, which controls the majority of stock in the company, will sell Dow Jones, including the Wall Street Journal. Read the entire posting online here. Here is his prediction: “The Bold Prediction The Bancroft clan finally throws in […]
Great comments from Allan Sloan
If you’re a fan of Newsweek Wall Street column Allan Sloan — and every business journalist should be — then you’re likely to get a kick out of his column in this morning’s Washington Post. The column can be read here. Let me excerpt the best part, the section about his reporting tactics. This sums […]
Former biz reporter sues Columbus Dispatch
When does a former business reporter sue his former newspaper? When he feels as if he was fired because of his battle against cancer. That’s the situation at the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio, where a former biz writer, Phil Porter, is suing the paper, claiming that it fired him because of his mounting medical claims, […]
MarketWatch losing readers?
Business 2.0 has a nice update on the Dow Jones acquisition of the CBS Marketwatch web site, which occurred almost a year ago. Seems that the site has lost a lot of viewers and that Dow Jones, which does not have a good history when it comes to acquisitions, may have overpaid. To read the […]
Another paper to drop stock listings
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has joined the newspapers that will no longer run full stock listings during the week. The paper says it will carry stock listings on Saturday and Sunday. See the full story here. The can’t be good news for the business news hole in Rochester.
Conference call on how to read like a 10-Q
CFA Institute, the global, non-profit association that administers the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam, is offering the follow-up session to its “How to Read Earnings Statements Like An Investment Professional,â€? the first in a series of educational media seminars designed to help journalists read financial statements and write accurate stories for the investor. Jay Taparia, […]
Blog on vacation for the holidays
Beginning early tomorrow morning, I will be gone from North Carolina for 12 out of the next 13 days, so the blog will be taking a well-deserved holiday break. If I have access to the Internet and can do my usual blog searches and look for business journalism-related items, I will do my best to […]
Want to pick the worst PR spin job of 2005?
Have you taken the Center for Media and Democracy’s 2005 “Falsies Survey” yet? If not, please take a minute to do so today — the survey closes this Friday! They’re relying on journalists to help us identify the people and players most responsible for polluting the information environment over the last year. Do BP and […]
Does big business have a PR problem?
Interesting story from the Dec. 9 New York Times on whether big business is having a public relations crisis. “More than ever, Americans do not trust business or the people who run it,” reports Claudia H. Deutsch. “Pollsters, researchers, even many corporate chiefs themselves say that business is under attack by a majority of the […]
Patterson Foundation fellowship winners
Looking at the list of Patterson Foundation fellowship winners, it’s nice to see that a couple of them are going to spend the next year documenting details of a business story. Susan Reed, a freelance writer from Cambridge, Mass., is going to spend her time researching “activism in the corporation.” Ken Ward, a reporter for […]
