Meet the Money Lady
The CBS News show “Sunday Morning” profiled Suze Orman, who has a personal finance show on CNBC, and assessed her popularity. Ben Tracy wrote, “She got taken by a stock broker and lost it all. So Orman became a broker herself. In 1994 she wrote her first book and was quickly dismissed by many money […]
What Murdoch would gain from Yahoo: More business news clout
Abbey Klaassen of Advertising Age writes Monday that the proposed deal between News Corp. and Yahoo would give CEO Rupert Murdoch even more power in the business news category. Klaassen wrote, “Just a few months after he closed the deal on his quest for the much-coveted Dow Jones Co., the famously ambitious Australian is looking […]
Monday's Philly Inquirer biz section introduces daily video Web cast
First up on our front pages is Monday’s Philadelphia Inquirer business section. Faithful Talking Biz News readers will remember that the Inquirer’s biz section last year had a controversial change when it began running ads on its masthead and allowed a local bank to sponsor its Philly Inc. column on the front page. As for […]
Send your biz section fronts to TBN
Starting this week, Talking Biz News would like to post PDF files of the covers of weekly business newspapers, daily business sections, and business magazines so that others in the business can see them and learn what others are doing across the country. The idea comes from Philadelphia Inquirer business editor Tony Gnoffo, who says […]
Montana newspaper cuts stock listings
The Billings Gazette in Montana is cutting its stock listings during the week and will instead run the AP’s “Money & Markets” page, writes editor Steve Prosinski. Prosinski wrote, “Here’s hoping that Tuesday’s stock market performance will head in the right direction for you – up, up, up. All this talk of recession (are we […]
Washington state paper cuts Sunday stock listings
The Olympian newspaper in Olympia, Wash., has cut its Sunday stock listings, among other changes to the business section. Executive editor Vickie Kilgore wrote, “The Sunday Business section looks different. It’s combined with the Classified listings, which we think you will find useful. The list of property transfers that has been published in the Business […]
Critic: AP emphasizes negativity in housing reports
Tom Blumer writes on the NewsBusters site that the Associated Press seems to always accentuate the negative in the National Association of Realtors report on the housing market. Blumer wrote, “Granted, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) is a trade organization which will, as trade organizations do, try to put the best face on a bad […]
Explaining the Duke Nukem controversy
Kevin Bumgarner, the editor of the Dallas Business Journal, writes about the controversy surrounding the paper’s story about a local game company and its release date for an upcoming game. Bumgarner wrote, “Technology has forever changed the rules of engagement between media outlets and the companies they cover, with repercussions — and opportunities — for […]
Selling business publication not an easy decision
Jerry Lewis, the former editor and co-publisher of the Boulder County Business Report, writes Friday about the decision to sell the paper to Brown Publishing Co., which has bought other business papers in the past year. Lewis wrote, “I’ve never given a lot of credence to horoscopes, but as we negotiated the sale of the […]
This is business news?
TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow wants to know why the New York Times is writing stories in its business section about a gossip web site that focuses on Britney Spears and TheStreet.com is launching a new web site devoted to celebrity news called MainStreet.com. Kantrow wrote, “The blogosphere has already done a pretty good job […]
