NYTimes blogger asks PR firms to pay for expenses
A writer for The New York Times “You’re the Boss” blog has been requesting thousands of dollars in “expenses” and travel airfare from a public relations firm trying to get its clients covered in the Times, according to emails obtained by Gawker’s Nitasha Tiku. Tiku writes, “‘This is a minimum investment and shows the company […]
Tech editor Smalera leaving Reuters.com for NYTimes
Bill Riordan, head of product at Reuters Next, sent out the following staff departure announcement for the Reuters.com tech editor on Thursday: I wanted to make you all aware that Paul Smalera will be leaving Reuters to take on a new role at the New York Times. Paul has played a huge role on Reuters […]
NY Times, Reuters, News & Observer are multi Loeb winners
David Barboza and Sharon LaFraniere of the New York Times received the Gerald Loeb Award Tuesday evening in international reporting for “China’s Secret Fortunes,” the first of three Loebs that the paper received for its business journalism. The Times also won in the images/interactives category for “Economy Interactives” and in the investigative category for David […]
NYTimes biz news desk hires two new reporters from FT
New York Times business editor Dean Murphy and an editor for Dealbook Jeffrey Cane sent out the following staff hire announcement: Great news from the Finance/DealBook cluster: We will be adding two new reporters this summer, both from The Financial Times, as we replenish our ranks — and then some — in our continued mission […]
The dark art of leaking deals
Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times writes about how some bankers and lawyers like to leak to the business media the deals they are working on. Sorkin writes, “Of course, the topic of this column hits a little too close to home. I will share a bit more, but not too much. A […]
Covering the business of television
Brian Stelter of the New York Times talks with Chris Ariens of TVNewser.com about how he got started covering the television industry and parlayed that into a job at The Times.
Overseas Press Club names biz journalism winners
The Overseas Press Club named its 74th annual winners for the OPC Awards, and several are business journalism. Jeremy Page of The Wall Street Journal won the Bob Considine Award for best newspaper or wire service interpretation of international affairs for his stories about the mysterious death of a British businessman, but provided startling glimpses […]
Three Pulitzers this year in business journalism
There appears to be three Pulitzer Prizes awarded Monday for work in business and financial journalism. Three other works of business and financial journalism were finalists. The Pulitzer for investigative reporting was awarded to David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab of The New York Times for their reports on how Wal-Mart used widespread bribery […]
A small business news niche within the New York Times
James Breiner, who teaches business journalism at Tsinghua University, writes about Loren Feldman, the small business editor at the New York Times, who writes a blog called “You’re the Boss: The Art of Running a Small Business” that appears in the small business section of the Times’s website. Breiner writes, “Feldman started the blog from scratch in […]
The ethics of a biz journalist sharing passwords
Margaret Sullivan, the public editor of The New York Times, writes about technology writer Jenna Wortham‘s recent admission that she shares passwords for Netflix. Sullivan writes, “Another reader, Fred Goodwin, wrote to me: ‘I find it surprising that a NYT columnist would publicly advocate and actively participate in such a practice. This strikes me as […]
