WSJ and Morningstar team up
The Wall Street Journal has struck a deal with mutual fund tracker Morningstar to provide fund data and information on its Web site, according to a release Tuesday. The resources are now available to users of WSJ.com free of charge. Morningstar will also provide daily price and performance data for the fund listings service published […]
Longtime biz journalist Takahashi leaving Mercury News
Dean Takahashi, a business columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, said goodbye to readers Monday on his Tech Talk blog. He’s going to work for VentureBeat, a blog founded by former Mercury News business journalist Matt Marshall. Takahashi wrote, “I will be working out of my home, preferably in my warm-ups, and will still […]
Claman says former CNBC co-workers call her every day
In an interview in Boston magazine, Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman says her former co-workers at CNBC call her every day about coming to work at the rival. Here is an excerpt: BD: It must be exciting for you to be in on the ground floor of this network. LC: There’s no glory in […]
The biz media hates the market
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs writes Monday that the business media’s recent negativity toward the economy signals that the stock market might have hit a bottom. Fuchs wrote, “The Business Press Maven is not one to call short-term trading moves, but conventional wisdom is always reflected in the price of stocks. And the business media […]
New owner plans to remake Worth
Jeff Ostrowski of the Palm Beach Post writes Monday about Sandow Media’s plans to overhaul Worth magazine, which it recently acquired. Ostrowski wrote, “Worth‘s staff will remain in New York, and Sandow plans a relaunch of the magazine this year. “‘The point I made to the staff in New York is that Sandow Media creates […]
Economist losses battle for domain name
The Economist magazine has lost a battle to gain the domain name theeconomist.com, writes Jason Fell of Folio. Fell wrote, “In its petition to WIPO, The Economist argued that the disputed domain name is identical to the magazine’s registered trademarks, and that the individual who registered the name has no ‘legitimate interests’ in the name. […]
Tracking job changes by business journalists
Cate Doty of The New York Times writes Monday about Gorkana, the e-mail newsletter that tracks job changes by business journalists. Doty wrote, “The newsletter — which reaches the in-boxes of about 5,000 journalists and will come out five times a week starting March 1 — is the American counterpart to a British version, which […]
California biz editor moves to opinion section
Eric Grunder, the money editor at the Stockton Record in California, is moving to the opinions section after 17-plus years running the paper’s business coverage. Grunder wrote, “Monday, I move to the opinion page, a Record section handled with aplomb for the last decade by Kevin Parrish. Of the two of us, I got the […]
Responding to critics of real estate coverage
Melanie Sill, the editor of the Sacramento Bee, writes Sunday about the paper’s coverage of the slumping real estate market, which has drawn numerous complaints. Sill wrote, “Our reporting shouldn’t be overly gloomy, of course, but we shouldn’t tilt news coverage to try to be ‘positive,’ as some critics suggest. “Business editor Cathie Anderson’s staff […]
Lunch with Jim Cramer
Chrystia Freeland, the U.S. managing editor of The Financial Times, writes Saturday about having lunch with CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer. Freeland wrote, “Even if you buy Cramer’s shtick about his tortured relationship with himself — and this Woody Allen-esque self-loathing is certainly an essential foil to his show’s other excesses and part of what […]
