Boston Globe becomes latest paper to cut stock listings
The Boston Globe announced in Tuesday’s newspaper that it will join the long list of metro dailies cutting stock listings and encouraging readers to find stock price information on the Internet. Other papers to have made the change include the New York Times, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Rocky Mountain News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Orlando Sentinel and The […]
Apple loses case against online biz journalists
Apple Computer has lost out in a California appeals court ruling in its attempt to force some online news sites to disclose where it received confidential information about some of its products, reports San Jose Mercury News reporter Howard Mintz. Mintz writes, “In a 69-page ruling, the San Jose-based 6th District Court of Appeal broke […]
Reuters looking to hire 100 reporters, including in U.S.
The news agency Reuters is looking to beef up its operations, including hiring for a number of business reporting positions in the United States, reports British newspaper The Guardian. Press correspondent Stephen Brook writes, “The company is hiring 21 political and general news journalists across the world and 12 new editors for its global picture […]
New Yorker reviews Jim Cramer's "Mad Money"
There is something disconcerting about seeing a review of Jim Cramer’s “Mad Money” television show in the New Yorker. Do people who subscribe to this high-brow magazine actually watch Cramer’s antics on television and read TheStreet.com, where he writes a column? Or don’t they get all of their investment advice from their own personal stock […]
Former FT editor Gowers looks back
Former Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers, who is now in public relations for Lehman Brothers, talked to the Independent about his new job and why he left the financial newspaper at the end of last year. The article notes, “Gowers’s strategic differences with FT owners Pearson revolved around his perceived failing to shore up the […]
WaPo's Jerry Knight to take early retirement offer
The Washington Post’s Jerry Knight, who has been covering Washington business for the past 28 years and writes the “Washington Investing” column on Mondays, has decided to take the company’s buyout offer. His last column appeared in Monday’s paper. Knight says he will use his time to actually invest in local companies that he has […]
Enron shows the myth of adversial press
Los Angeles Times’ columnist Tim Rutten reminds us, with the closing of the Enron trial, that the role of the business press in society failed in the case of the Houston energy company. Rutten writes, “One of the answers has to do with inherent limitations the press often is loath to admit. Today, there are […]
Jeff Kreisler is my new favorite business writer
OK, so Jeff Kreisler is not a business journalist per se. In fact, he’s just a New York-based comedian. But somehow, he has talked TheStreet.com into giving him carte blanche once a week, typically on Saturday or Sunday, to write about the funny stuff that happens in the business world. OK, so maybe it’s not […]
Chronicle's Enron covered excelled
Houston Chronicle reader representative James Campbell is gloating, as are readers, about the paper’s coverage of the recently concluded Enron trial in his Sunday column. Campbell writes, “Leading up to the trial, the Chronicle was criticized by some readers, who believed our stories about Lay and Skilling were soft and self-serving. Deputy managing editor George […]
Clarion-Ledger biz editor leaves for economic council
Scott Waller, the business editor of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Mississippi, is leaving the paper after four years as biz editor to become senior vice president of public affairs for the Mississippi Economic Council, he wrote in the Sunday newspaper. Waller writes, “From my first day on the job until now, the business world has […]
