Soft coverage of tech from the Geek Fest
I have never been a big fan of the Consumer Electronics Show, and saw it first-hand when it was in Atlanta in the 1990s and I was a business reporter for the Journal-Constitution. It seemed to be a way for the computer and technology companies to get free publicity. That has apparently continued, says William […]
New deputy biz editor at Chicago Sun-Times
Her name is Polly Smith, and she replaced Michael Gillis, who joined the editorial board of Chicago’s No. 2 newspaper. Smith had been a copy editor for the business section before her promotion. Smith earned a B.A. degree in economics and English from Albion College in Michigan, and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia […]
New editor in chief at Smart Money
His name is Jonathan Dahl, and he previously had been executive editor of the personal finance magazine, which is a joint venture between Dow Jones & Co. and Hearst. Dahl also worked at The Wall Street Journal. He succeeds Ed Finn, who becomes editorial director. Dahl, a Columbia University grad, served as a reporter in […]
Madison's Capital Times to add Monday business news page
The Capital Times, which is the newspaper in the Wisconsin capital of Madison, announced in the newspaper this morning that it was adding a business page in the Monday paper. The paper said the addition was so that the paper could “provide some of the week’s early news in that area.” Read the entire announcement […]
Update on trial of men who allegedley killed Forbes editor
The latest is that one of the attorneys representing one of the defendants on trial for killing Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov has been accused by the judge in the case of misonduct. An update to the trial can be found here. What I am finding interesting in following the coverage is that the trial is […]
Apple coverage gone soft?
The topic of whether the coverage of Apple Computers being too soft is not a new one. But Arik Hesseldahl, a writer for BusinessWeek Online, is assessing it again in this piece posted this morning. Hesseldahl notes that on Tuesday, AP issued a one sentence NewsAlert about Apple beginning to ship computers with Intel chips […]
SABEW seeks board members
If you’d like to have a say in how the national organization runs itself, then now is the time to consider running for a spot to be a board member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Here is the announcement: Six SABEW board positions open up every year. We also fill the […]
Revolutionizing business coverage in Britain
There’s a new newspaper in Britain called City AM for the movers and shakers in the business world, according to this Press Gazette article about editor David Parsley. Parsley is critical of the Financial Times, which is the main financial paper in England and has a strong presence in the United States: “A criticism of […]
Changing how proxy stories are written in the future
I envision a change in the basic way that executive compensation and proxy stories are written in the future if the proposed SEC rule mentioned in this morning’s USA Today makes its way into an actual regulation. In short, the SEC is considering requiring companies to report a single compensation number for its executives. Here […]
A rite of passage at most business sections — and writers
Andrew Cassel, who writes about the economy for the Philadelphia Inquirer, sums up what probably happened on a lot of business desks earlier this week: “We used to have a kind of ritual in the newsroom: Whenever the Dow Jones industrial average hit some number that ended in three zeros, a top editor would emerge […]
